Title: An intelligent information retrieval: a social network analysis

Authors: Monika Arora; Uma Kanjilal; Dinesh Varshney

Addresses: Department of IT, Apeejay School of Management, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-110075, India. ' Department of Library and Information Science, Indira Gandhi Open University Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110 068, India. ' School of Physics, Devi Ahilya University, Khandwa road Campus, Indore-452001, M.P., India; Multimedia Regional Centre, Madhya Pradesh Bhoj (Open) University, Khandwa road Campus, Indore-452001, M.P., India

Abstract: Information retrieval is the need to find (retrieve) already available information, as well as to generate knowledge by applying the intelligence. The concept of social networks is vital in helping the users to manage their work cycle and adaptation of information technology evolutions. It has an open platform to the where the researchers can apply classical technique from social network to online networking; and also influence it to semantic representation. The Google trend depicts the data of social networking as 93% usage of social networking. A survey study is undertaken that interprets the use of different social networking for the youth of Delhi in India. It also depict the data of the usage of information retrieval with social networking is very low. This paper attempts to carry an online survey for the users of social networking sites to find the ease in usage and comfort ability in using those websites.

Keywords: social network analysis; social networking tools; web science; social sciences; semantics; LinkedIn; Facebook; MySpace; blogs; Twitter; intelligent information retrieval; weblogs; web based communities; virtual communities; online communities; India; ease of use.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2012.046263

International Journal of Web Based Communities, 2012 Vol.8 No.2, pp.213 - 222

Published online: 20 Aug 2014 *

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