UFeedRevs

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UFeedRevs

• Redefine Web Searches gtgt

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Overview

• Introduction
• Related Work
• UFeedRevs
• System Flow
• feedee
• Interpretations of BETA tests
• Future Research
• Areas of Application
• Questions or Feedbacks
• Thanks

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Introduction

• Search Engines
• Primary gateways of Information Access
• Claim to index more than 19 billion pages
• Today focus shifts from size to relevancy !

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Related Work

• Web click-through data
• Merits Effortless, Shows Improvements
• Demerits Inconclusive
• Active Feedback of Effective Web Search
• Demerits Increased User Involvement
• Adaptive Web Search based on User Profile
• Merits Improves Performance, Popular
• Demerits Exhaustive, User Specific

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UFeedRevs

• User Feeds Relevant Results
• Empower the User
• Focus on relevancy and usefulness
• Power of Collaborative Filtering
• Re-define Web Searches

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System Flow

• Collect User Feedbacks
• Filter User Feedbacks
• Compute Feedback Rating

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System Flow (contd.)

• Compute Feedback Rating
• Large Samples ( gt100)
• Mode Evaluation
• Statistical Dispersion around Mode
• a - cutoff

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System Flow (contd.)

• Aging and Flushing
• Value existing feedbacks
• Consider new feedbacks
• Flush the old ones

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feedee

• feedee is a pseudo-search engine.
• More you feed it the better (fatter -) it gets
• http//feedee.dbit.in

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feedee (System Architecture)
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feedee (Powered by)

• Google Search API
• PHP 4.1
• MySQL 4.3.x
• NuSOAP 0.6.1

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feedee (Screenshots)
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Interpretations from BETA tests

• Suitable for theme-based searching
• Overall increase in relevancy of results
• Limited resistance to User Bias

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Future research

• More extensive testing in terms of
• scale
• audience
• query categories
• Recognizing areas in which this scheme can prove
  to be useful
• Optimizing feedee

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Areas of Application

• Theme-based Search Engine
• Local Transparent Layer
• Query Knowledge Discovery
• Potential for Non-text based searches
• Document Search Engine
• ...and many more

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Questions or Feedbacks

• Our quest to answer a few key questions ended up
  in more questions

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Before we say Thnks!

• Group Members
• Akshay Surve
• Manav Shah
• Project Guide
• Prof. Amiya Tripathy
• Special Thanks
• Dr. S. Krishnamoorthy (Director RnD, DBIT)
• Dr. Revathy Sundararajan
• Prof. D.D. Patil
• Everyone who participated in BETA testing
  (feeding)