A study on the effects of personalization and task information on implicit feedback performance

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 297-306

  White, Ryen W ^a   Kelly, Diane ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Implicit feedback

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; SEARCH ENGINES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

IMPLICIT FEEDBACK; INFORMATION-SEEKING; INTERACTION LOGS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 34547626955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1183614.1183659     Document Type: Conference Paper

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