Searching Desktop Files Based on Synonym Relationship

Author

Xiyan Zhao ; Yukun Li ; Jingyu Liu ; Yingyuan Xiao

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Intell. Comput. & Novel Software Technol., Tianjin, China

fYear

2013

Firstpage

483

Lastpage

488

Abstract

Users sometimes cannot remember the exact words of desktop filenames and meet trouble in re-finding these desktop files. In this condition the existing keyword based desktop search tools cannot work well. In this paper, we first analyze the synonym relationship among the words utilized in naming personal desktop files. Then, we propose a synonym-based desktop search method to solve the problem, and name it SynDS. By comparing it with a popular desktop search tool "MS Desktop Search", SynDS shows better recall and precision, which means it can help users re-find desktop files in some conditions when the traditional methods fail to work.

Keywords

information management; information retrieval; microcomputers; naming services; personal computing; MS Desktop Search; SynDS; desktop file searching; personal desktop file naming; personal information management; precision; recall; synonym relationship; synonym-based desktop search method; Catalogs; Computers; Indexing; Vectors; Vocabulary; Writing; Desktop File Searching; Personal Information Management; Synonym;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Information System and Application Conference (WISA), 2013 10th

Conference_Location

Yangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3218-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WISA.2013.97

Filename

6778688