Word importance discrimination is a task deserving attention when one treats a topic from TREC where a topic is quite long. The goal of the process is to estimate importance of wo...
This paper presents a new conceptual framework for summarization that considers the relationship between entities, device properties and user information needs. We summarize using...
Music information retrieval is characterized by a number of various user information needs. Systems are being developed that allow searchers to find melodies, rhythms, genres, an...
The motivation behind many Information Retrieval systems is to identify and present relevant information to people given their current goals and needs. Learning about user preferen...
Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, Bar...
Information Retrieval (IR) systems try to identify documents relevant to user queries, which are representations of user information needs. Interaction, context, and document struc...
Designing information architecture for complex websites requires understanding user information needs and mental models in that domain. Personas, or user archetypes, created for s...