Context and Information Retrieval

Information Retrieval: Searching in the 21st Century

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 131-157

  Göker, Ayşe ^a,b   Myrhaug, Hans ^b   Bierig, Ralf ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Ambiesense Limited   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context in information retrieval; Context modelling and representation; Evaluating context aware IR systems; Perceptions of context in related fields; Personalisation and context; Principles of methodology; Representation of context; scaling up participant number formative to summative evaluation; Searching with context information; User models and context relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889494926     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470033647.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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