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can group agreement/disagreement be predicted). Additionally, we think that for
Computer Science, our work could be applied to enhance the capability of search
engines. In particular, note that the user of an engine needs to communicate his/her
needs for specific information to the engine. Thus, user and engine have to create a
shared conceptual meaning of the search terms and information needs. The stronger
the shared conceptual meaning created, the more appropriate the information that the
search engine will provide to the user. Hence, our inquiry into conceptual and shared
meaning could give insights to the development of better communication tools
between users and search engines.
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