Matching task profiles and user needs in personalized web search

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 689-698

  Luxenburger, Julia ^a   Elbassuoni, Shady ^a   Weikum, Gerhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Experimentation; Human factors

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTATION; GRANULARITY LEVELS; HUMAN FACTORS; PERSONALIZATIONS; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELS; USER INFORMATION NEED; USER INTERESTS; USER MODELS; USER NEED; USER PROFILE; USER QUERY; USER STUDY; WEB SEARCHES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 67650073406     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1458082.1458175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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