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KCAP
2003
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Capturing interest through inference and visualization: ontological user profiling in recommender systems
Tools for filtering the World Wide Web exist, but they are hampered by the difficulty of capturing user preferences in such a diverse and dynamic environment. Recommender systems ...
Stuart E. Middleton, Nigel R. Shadbolt, David De R...
CONTEXT
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Personalized Retrieval Model based on Influence Diagrams
Abstract. A key challenge in information retrieval is the use of contextual evidence within ad-hoc retrieval. Our contribution is particularly based on the belief that contextual r...
Nesrine Zemirli, Lynda Tamine, Mohand Boughanem
LWA
2008
13 years 9 months ago
An Exploratory Study of User Goals and Strategies in Podcast Search
We report on an exploratory, qualitative user study designed to identify users' goals underlying podcast search, the strategies used to gain access to podcasts, and how curre...
Jana Besser, Katja Hofmann, Martha Larson
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Web projections: learning from contextual subgraphs of the web
Graphical relationships among web pages have been leveraged as sources of information in methods for ranking search results. To date, specific graphical properties have been used ...
Jure Leskovec, Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz
ISWC
2002
IEEE
14 years 14 days ago
Evaluating Contextual Information for Wearable Computing
Does the use of a wearable context-aware computer increase task proficiency? User trials have been carried out in an attempt to answer this question. The study involves WECAPC sof...
Huw W. Bristow, Chris Baber, James Cross, Sandra I...