Context-aware applications use context information, like location or identification of nearby objects of interest, to adapt their behavior to the current situation of the user. The...
Tom Broens, Dick A. C. Quartel, Marten van Sindere...
Abstract. With information proliferation on the Web, how to obtain highquality information from the Web has been one of hot research topics in many fields like Database, IR as well...
Generating alternative queries, also known as query suggestion, has long been proved useful to help a user explore and express his information need. In many scenarios, such sugges...
Relevance feedback is the retrieval task where the system is given not only an information need, but also some relevance judgement information, usually from users' feedback f...
Users of the World-Wide Web are not only confronted by an immense overabundance of information, but also by a plethora of tools for searching for the web pages that suit their inf...