Searching Desktop Files Based on Synonym Relationship

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.