Method and system of queries management for crowd searching
Data di pubblicazione
06-02-2015
Codice
EI.12.013.A
Stato
Non attivo
Data di priorità
16-07-2012
Fase
US
Titolare
Politecnico di Milano
Dipartimento
DIPARTIMENTO DI ELETTRONICA, INFORMAZIONE E BIOINGEGNERIA
Autori
Stefano Ceri, Marco Brambilla, Alessandro Bozzon
Descrizione
The invention consists in a
method for applying techniques of crowdsourcing and social networking to the problem of finding information online, in particular to
answer questions for which the traditional search engines are not able to provide satisfactory answers.
The system allows you to start with
partial responses provided by conventional engines and to
establish a set of possible users that could potentially answer directly the question.
The system
uses social connections established on a commercial social networks, communities of practice and channels of crowdsourcing to forward the application to the users, who can respond through the same connection channels.
The system allows to
configure the behavior of the application according to
a series of parameters (i.e. the expected level of quality, maximum waiting time, number of responses), which contribute to improve the selection of channel and responder users.
Campo di applicazione
<b>Web applications</b> that allow to <b>combine traditional search technology with requests sent to Web users</b> who are asked to answer (e.g. requests on specific geographic locations, requests on advanced medical information, requests on members’ community opinion, etc).
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Vantaggi
<h2><span style="font-size: 12px;">The proposed model</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "> uses a </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">simple interaction between search technology</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "> (i.e. presenting the search results in ranking order) and </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">crowd processing</span><span style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; "> (i.e. engaging humans in re-evaluation of search results), thus extending the crowdsourcing idea, already popular in many virtual markets, to the search field.</span></h2>
To know more about us, please visit our website:
http://crowdsearcher.search-computing.org/
Stadio di sviluppo
Working prototype
Contatto
licensing.tto@polimi.it