Personal Information Assistants that search on user’s behalf aim to fetch relevant documents on a regular basis. We have developed such assistant system and evaluated it using a...
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...
Researchers investigating personalization techniques for Web Information Retrieval face a challenge; that the data required to perform evaluations, namely query logs and clickthro...
Background: Large molecular sequence databases are fundamental resources for modern bioscientists. Whether for project-specific purposes or sharing data with colleagues, it is oft...
Scott A. Givan, Christopher M. Sullivan, James C. ...
We formulate and study search algorithms that consider a user’s prior interactions with a wide variety of content to personalize that user’s current Web search. Rather than re...