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...
Although researchers have studied which factors influence the behavior of traditional search algorithms, currently not much is known about how domain properties influence the perf...
Real-time search methods are suited for tasks in which the agent is interacting with an initially unknown environment in real time. In such simultaneous planning and learning prob...
Personalization of information retrieval tailors search towards individual users to meet their particular information needs by taking into account information about users and thei...
Jingjing Liu, Michael J. Cole, Chang Liu, Ralf Bie...
: This paper presents the results of a user study conducted in the framework of the Interactive Image Retrieval task at CLEF 2009. The main goal of our research is to understand th...