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A Personalized Information Search Process Based on Dialoguing Agents and User Profiling

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Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2003)

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The amount of information available on the web, as well as the number of e-businesses and web shoppers, is growing exponentially. Customers have to spend a lot of time to browse the net in order to find relevant information. One way to overcome this problem is to use dialoguing agents that exploit user profiles to generate personal recommendations. This paper presents a system, designed according to this approach, that adopts a query refinement mechanism to improve the search process of an Internet commerce web site.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Via Orabona 4, 70125, Bari, Italy

    Giovanni Semeraro, Marco Degemmis & Pasquale Lops

  2. Fraunhofer IPSI, Dolivostr. 15, 64293, Darmstadt, Germany

    Ulrich Thiel & Marcello L’Abbate

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Semeraro, G., Degemmis, M., Lops, P., Thiel, U., L’Abbate, M. (2003). A Personalized Information Search Process Based on Dialoguing Agents and User Profiling. In: Sebastiani, F. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2633. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36618-0_49

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