The search task and the system both affect the demand on cognitive resources during information search. In some situations, the demands may become too high for a person. This arti...
Personalized Web search has emerged as one of the hottest topics for both the Web industry and academic researchers. However, the majority of studies on personalized search focuse...
Jae-wook Ahn, Peter Brusilovsky, Daqing He, Jonath...
In a federated digital library system, it is too expensive to query every accessible library. Resource selection is the task to decide to which libraries a query should be routed....
Query logs record the queries and the actions of the users of search engines, and as such they contain valuable information about the interests, the preferences, and the behavior ...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, De...
Previous research into the efficiency of text retrieval systems has dealt primarily with methods that consider inverted lists in sequence; these methods are known as term-at-a-tim...