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The aims of the workshop on Personalised Multilingual Hypertext Retrieval (PMHR) are twofold: to set the scene in this challenging area, allowing the different communities engaged in related research topics to meet and to determine a program of actions ...

The explosive growth of the Internet has seen it exceed over two billion users in 2010. However an analysis of the demography of this user base indicates an ever growing diversity. Currently only 38.8% of internet users originate from the countries such ...

The information retrieval field has a strong and long tradition, that dates back to the sixties of the past century, in the experimental evaluation of Information Retrieval (IR) systems in order to assess their performances in a scientifically sound and ...

This paper reports the results of an ongoing project that deals with the development of a digital archive of drawings and illustrations of historic documents for research purposes, but also as a tool that can be used to disclose cultural heritage ...

A key advantage of Adaptive Hypermedia Systems (AHS) is their ability to re-sequence and reintegrate content to satisfy a particular user's need, context or requirements. However, this requires large volumes of content, with appropriate granularities ...

The exponential growth of the Web is the most influential factor that contributes to the increasing importance of cross-lingual text retrieval and filtering systems. Indeed, relevant information exists in different languages, thus users need to find ...

We propose to extend standard information retrieval (IR) ad-hoc test collection design to facilitate research on personalized and collaborative IR by gathering additional meta-information during the topic (query) development process. We propose a ...

The majority of studies in Personalized Information Retrieval (PIR) literature have focused on monolingual IR, and only relatively little work has been done conceming multilingual IR. In this paper we propose a novel method to represent user models in a ...

CULTURA will deliver personalisation and community-aware adaptivity for Digital Humanities communities through an innovative environment which is tailored to the investigation, comprehension and enrichment of digital humanities collections. CULTURA ...

Interactions between users and information access systems can be analyzed and studied to gather user preferences and to learn what a user likes the most, and to use this information to adapt the search to users and personalize the presentation of ...