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A personalised information retrieval tool

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SIGIR '03: Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval

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https://doi.org/10.1145/860435.860532

Published: 28 July 2003 Publication History

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Industry professionals and everyday users of the Internet have long accepted that due to both the size and growth of this ubiquitous repository, new tools are needed to assist with the finding and extraction of very specific resources relevant to a user's task. Previously, this definition of relevance has been based on the extremely generic matching between resources and query terms, but recently the emphasis is shifting towards a more personalised model based on the relevance of a particular resource for one specific user. We introduce a prototype, \tt Fetch, which adopts this concept within an information-seeking environment specifically designed to provide users with the means to better describe a problem (s)he doesn't understand.

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Basu Roy SWang HDas GNambiar UMohania MShanahan JAmer-Yahia SManolescu IZhang YEvans DKolcz AChoi KChowdury A(2008)Minimum-effort driven dynamic faceted search in structured databasesProceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management10.1145/1458082.1458088(13-22)Online publication date: 26-Oct-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1458082.1458088
Psarras IJose J(2007)Evaluating a personal information assistantLarge Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video, and Sound)10.5555/1931390.1931417(274-286)Online publication date: 30-May-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1931390.1931417
Jansen BMullen TSpink APedersen J(2006)Automated gathering of Web informationACM Transactions on Internet Technology10.1145/1183463.11834686:4(442-464)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1183463.1183468
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A personalised information retrieval tool
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval

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SIGIR '03: Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval

July 2003

490 pages

ISBN:1581136463

DOI:10.1145/860435

General Chairs:
Charles Clarke
University of Waterloo, Canada
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Gordon Cormack
University of Waterloo, Canada
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Jamie Callan
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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David Hawking
Australian National University, Australia
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Alan Smeaton
Dublin City University, Ireland

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Basu Roy SWang HDas GNambiar UMohania MShanahan JAmer-Yahia SManolescu IZhang YEvans DKolcz AChoi KChowdury A(2008)Minimum-effort driven dynamic faceted search in structured databasesProceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management10.1145/1458082.1458088(13-22)Online publication date: 26-Oct-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1458082.1458088
Psarras IJose J(2007)Evaluating a personal information assistantLarge Scale Semantic Access to Content (Text, Image, Video, and Sound)10.5555/1931390.1931417(274-286)Online publication date: 30-May-2007
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Jansen BMullen TSpink APedersen J(2006)Automated gathering of Web informationACM Transactions on Internet Technology10.1145/1183463.11834686:4(442-464)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1183463.1183468
Leo Yuen Chang MYing Kit Lai Chung Keung Poon (2004)Excalibur : a personalized meta search engineProceedings of the 28th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference, 2004. COMPSAC 2004.10.1109/CMPSAC.2004.1342671(49-50)Online publication date: 2004
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