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A System for Adaptive Information Retrieval

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Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH 2006)

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In this paper, we describe the design and development of personal information assistant (PIA), a system aiming to meet individual needs of the searchers. The system’s goal is to provide more up-to-date and relevant information to users with respect to their needs and interests. The main component of the system is a profile learner for capturing temporal user needs, based on implicit feedback gathering techniques. It monitors the system usage, the documents viewed and other user actions in order to infer users’ changing needs.

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

    Ioannis Psarras & Joemon Jose

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  1. Knowledge and Data Engineering Group, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Vincent P. Wade

  2. School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Australia

    Helen Ashman

  3. Adaptive Information Cluster, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland

    Barry Smyth

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Psarras, I., Jose, J. (2006). A System for Adaptive Information Retrieval. In: Wade, V.P., Ashman, H., Smyth, B. (eds) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems. AH 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4018. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11768012_40

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