One distinctive feature of any adaptive system is the user model that represents essential information about each user. This chapter complements other chapters of this book in revi...
In this paper we suggest a new approach to analysis and design of IR systems. We argue for design space exploration in constructing IR systems and in analyzing the effects of ind...
In this paper we describe how we use a group of users’ accesses and interactions with web pages to discover and recommend relevant common navigation paths to other users. We col...
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the...