The goal of contextual information retrieval (CIR) is to better meet the user's needs by delivering him information adapted to his specific search context. This paper presents...
Web search engines have become the primary method of accessing information on the web. Billions of queries are submitted to major web search engines, reflecting a wide range of in...
Information Retrieval (IR) systems try to identify documents relevant to user queries, which are representations of user information needs. Interaction, context, and document struc...
The rapid advances in computer and communication technologies, and their merger, is leading to a global information market place. It will consist of federations of very large numb...
Search and recommendation systems must include contextual information to effectively model users’ interests. In this paper, we present a systematic study of the effectiveness of...