Title
Connections: using context to enhance file search
Abstract
Connections is a file system search tool that combines traditional content-based search with context information gathered from user activity. By tracing file system calls, Connections can identify temporal relationships between files and use them to expand and reorder traditional content search results. Doing so improves both recall (reducing false-positives) and precision (reducing false-negatives). For example, Connections improves the average recall (from 13% to 22%) and precision (from 23% to 29%) on the first ten results. When averaged across all recall levels, Connections improves precision from 17% to 28%. Connections provides these benefits with only modest increases in average query time (2 seconds), indexing time (23 seconds daily), and index size(under 1% of the user's data set).
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1095810.1095822
SOSP
Keywords
Field
DocType
false positive,indexation
Desktop search,Data mining,File system,Indexation,Computer science,Search engine indexing,Information storage,File management,Recall,Tracing
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
39
5
0163-5980
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-079-5
79
3.32
References 
Authors
19
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Craig A. N. Soules159145.41
Gregory R. Ganger24560383.16