We study a new task, proactive information retrieval by combining implicit relevance feedback and collaborative filtering. We have constructed a controlled experimental setting, ...
The representation of information collections needs to be optimized for human cognition. While documents often include rich visual components, collections, including personal coll...
We present a user interface, the OntoRefiner1 system, for helping the user to navigate numerous retrieved documents after a search querying a semantic portal which integrates a ver...
We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
Users’ cross-lingual queries to a digital library system might be short and not included in a common translation dictionary (unknown terms). In this paper, we investigate the fe...