The success of personal information agents depends on their ability to provide task-relevant information. This paper presents WordSieve, a new algorithm that generates context des...
Most information retrieval technologies are designed to facilitate information discovery. However, much knowledge work involves finding and re-using previously seen information. W...
Susan T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell, Jonathan J. Cadiz...
The project fragmentation problem in personal information management occurs when someone who is working on a single project stores and retrieves information items relating to that...
We consider the problem of learning to rank relevant and novel documents so as to directly maximize a performance metric called Expected Global Utility (EGU), which has several de...
Abstract. In order to organize huge document collections, labeled hierarchical structures are used frequently. Users are most efficient in navigating such hierarchies, if they refl...