Search trails mined from browser or toolbar logs comprise queries and the post-query pages that users visit. Implicit endorsements from many trails can be useful for search result...
Dwell time as a user behavior has been found in previous studies to be an unreliable predictor of document usefulness, with contextual factors such as the user’s task needing to...
The PC Desktop is a very rich repository of personal information, efficiently capturing user's interests. In this paper we propose a new approach towards an automatic persona...
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Claudiu S. Firan, Wolfgang...
The University of Maryland participated in the English and Czech tasks. For English, one monolingual run using only fields based on fully automatic transcription (the required con...
In this paper we will describe Berkeley's approach to the Domain Specific (DS) track for CLEF 2006. This year we are not using the tools for thesaurus-based query expansion a...