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WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
Finding our way on the web: exploring the role of waypoints in search interaction
Information needs are rarely satisfied directly on search engine result pages. Searchers usually need to click through to search results (landing pages) and follow search trails b...
Ryen W. White, Adish Singla
HIJ
2006
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13 years 3 months ago
Patient information needs: pre- and post-consultation
This paper presents findings from a study of information behaviour by National Health Service patients which explored motivational triggers for information needs. Previous researc...
Simon Attfield, Anne Adams, Ann Blandford
PAKM
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Situated Knowledge Management - KM on the Borderline between Chaos and Rigidity
Acknowledging the "untidiness of knowledge work", we agree that organizational learning calls for flexible and adaptable IT support. However, recurring situations which ...
Marc Diefenbruch, Marcel Hoffmann, Andrea Misch, H...
TREC
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Concept Extraction and Synonymy Management for Biomedical Information Retrieval
This paper reports on work done for the Genomics Track at TREC 2004 by ConverSpeech LLC in conjunction with scientists at the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD), the model organi...
Colleen E. Crangle, Alex Zbyslaw, J. Michael Cherr...
CRIWG
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Enabling the Collaborative Construction and Reuse of Knowledge through a Virtual Reference Environment
This paper analyzes some of the factors that prevent knowledge construction and reuse in traditional library settings and describes VRef, an environment designed to provide users ...
J. Alfredo Sánchez, Alberto García, ...
IADIS
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Seeking for Clues about Users' Information Needs in Their Navigation
Adaptive navigation systems are tools intended to assist users when they search the Web. Thus, they often have to know the users' current information needs (IN). However, the...
Jean-Yves Delort
ECIR
2004
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
A Simulated Study of Implicit Feedback Models
In this paper we report on a study of implicit feedback models for unobtrusively tracking the information needs of searchers. Such models use relevance information gathered from se...
Ryen W. White, Joemon M. Jose, C. J. van Rijsberge...
HIS
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Implicit User Modelling Using Hybrid Meta-Heuristics
The requirements imposed on information retrieval systems are increasing steadily. The vast number of documents in today's large databases and especially on World Wide Web ca...
Pavel Krömer, Václav Snásel, Ja...
LREC
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Development and Use of an Evaluation Collection for Personalisation of Digital Newspapers
This paper presents the process of development and the characteristics of an evaluation collection for a personalisation system for digital newspapers. This system selects, adapts...
Alberto Díaz, Pablo Gervás, Antonio ...
IAT
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
On Need-driven Proactive Information Exchanges in Agent Teams
Members of high-performing human teams can often anticipate information needs of teammates and offer relevant information to them proactively. Such capabilities are highly desirab...
John Yen, Xiaocong Fan, Richard A. Volz