From documents to tasks: Deriving user tasks from document usage patterns

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 285-288

  Brdiczka, Oliver ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic task identification; Document clustering; User task modeling

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT CLUSTERING; DOCUMENT FREQUENCY; DOCUMENT IDENTIFIERS; DOCUMENT SIMILARITY; DWELL TIME; KNOWLEDGE WORKERS; MULTIPLE TASKS; NEW APPROACHES; PRIVACY ISSUE; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; RECOVERY TIME; RETRIEVED DOCUMENTS; SIMILARITY MATRIX; SPECTRAL CLUSTERING; TASK DETECTION; TASK IDENTIFICATION; TASK MANAGEMENT; TASK MODELING; UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS; USAGE PATTERNS; USER DATA;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; USER INTERFACES;

TIME SWITCHES;

EID: 77951108087     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1719970.1720012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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