Personalized information agents can help overcome some of the limitations of communal Web information sources such as portals and search engines. Two important components of these...
While current search engines serve known-item search such as homepage finding very well, they generally cannot support exploratory search effectively. In exploratory search, user...
Xuanhui Wang, Bin Tan, Azadeh Shakery, ChengXiang ...
In the ocean of Web data, Web search engines are the primary way to access content. As the data is on the order of petabytes, current search engines are very large centralized sys...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Carlos Castillo, Flavio Ju...
Web search engines consistently collect information about users interaction with the system: they record the query they issued, the URL of presented and selected documents along w...
A long-standing goal of AI is the development of intelligent workstation-based personal agents to assist users in their daily lives. A key impediment to this goal is the unrealist...
Tom M. Mitchell, Sophie H. Wang, Yifen Huang, Adam...