Context-awareness for information retrieval is challenging problem as information about the users current situation is rarely available. If such information would be available, re...
We study a new task, proactive information retrieval by combining implicit relevance feedback and collaborative filtering. We have constructed a controlled experimental setting, ...
Abstract. Collaborative filtering is a major technique to make personalized recommendations about information items (movies, books, webpages etc) to individual users. In the liter...
Web searches tend to be short and ambiguous. It is therefore not surprising that Web query disambiguation is an actively researched topic. To provide a personalized experience for ...
In this paper, we describe the design of a profile generator toolkit, which aims to automatically create realistic user profiles for a mobile personalized portal service. These pr...