Social Book Search is a new area of social search. In the modern world everything is going to be amenable due to the web and social media. The web and social media give us access to a wealth of information, not only different in quantity but also in character. Traditional descriptions from professionals are now supplemented with user generated content. Although books have been the predominant source of information for centuries, the way we acquire, share, and publish information has changed and has been changing in fundamental ways due to the web. In the modern era, in order to purchase a book, the users are not only depend on the title, author name, publisher etc of the book available as controlled metadata but also on other aspects which include the reviews, editorial reviews etc available in different social media. Our primary focus in this survey is to describe the features of different social cataloging book sites as well as their recommendation based on books. How the online searching of books is useful to the user and up to what extent, and what are their aim are some of the issues we shall deal with. We will also discuss evolution of those techniques for Social Book Search presented over years at the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX) and Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). To what extent the features and functionality of a social sharing platform influence the user behavior, is also discussed in the paper. This survey provides an overview of research done in the area of Social Book Search from perspective of Information Retrieval.

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社交图书搜索：一项调查

社交图书搜索是社交搜索的一个新领域。在现代世界中，由于网络和社交媒体，一切都将变得顺理成章。网络和社交媒体为我们提供了丰富的信息，不仅在数量上有所不同，而且在性质上也有所不同。专业人士的传统描述现在补充了用户生成的内容。尽管几个世纪以来书籍一直是主要的信息来源，但我们获取、共享和发布信息的方式已经发生了变化，并且由于网络的存在而发生了根本性的变化。在现代时代，为了购买一本书，用户不仅依赖于作为受控元数据可用的书名、作者姓名、出版商等，还依赖于其他方面，包括不同版本的评论、编​​辑评论等。社交媒体。我们在本次调查中的主要重点是描述不同社会编目书籍网站的特征以及它们基于书籍的推荐。在线搜索书籍对用户有什么用，在多大程度上有用，他们的目的是什么是我们将要处理的一些问题。我们还将讨论多年来在 XML 检索评估倡议 (INEX) 和评估论坛会议和实验室 (CLEF) 上提出的社交图书搜索技术的演变。该论文还讨论了社交共享平台的特性和功能在多大程度上影响用户行为。本调查从信息检索的角度概述了在社交图书搜索领域所做的研究。