To overcome the “one size fits all” behavior of most search engines, in recent years a great deal of research has addressed the problem of defining techniques aimed at tailoring the search outcome to the user context to the aim of improving the quality of search. The main idea is to produce context-dependent and user-tailored search results. Search tasks are subjective, and often complex; the user-system interaction based on keyword-based querying and on the presentation of search results as a list of web pages ordered according to their estimated relevance is often unsatisfactory. In this paper a short overview of the main issues related to contextual search are outlined.

Pasi, G. (2011). Contextual Search: Issues and Challenges. In Information Quality in e-Health - 7th Conference of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society, USAB 2011, Graz, Austria, November 25-26, 2011. Proceedings (pp.23-30). Berlin : Springer [10.1007/978-3-642-25364-5_3].

Contextual Search: Issues and Challenges

PASI, GABRIELLA
2011

Abstract

To overcome the “one size fits all” behavior of most search engines, in recent years a great deal of research has addressed the problem of defining techniques aimed at tailoring the search outcome to the user context to the aim of improving the quality of search. The main idea is to produce context-dependent and user-tailored search results. Search tasks are subjective, and often complex; the user-system interaction based on keyword-based querying and on the presentation of search results as a list of web pages ordered according to their estimated relevance is often unsatisfactory. In this paper a short overview of the main issues related to contextual search are outlined.
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Information Retrieval, Context modeling, User Modelling, Search Personalisation
English
Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society, USAB
2011
Information Quality in e-Health - 7th Conference of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society, USAB 2011, Graz, Austria, November 25-26, 2011. Proceedings
978-3-642-25363-8
2011
7058
23
30
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Pasi, G. (2011). Contextual Search: Issues and Challenges. In Information Quality in e-Health - 7th Conference of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society, USAB 2011, Graz, Austria, November 25-26, 2011. Proceedings (pp.23-30). Berlin : Springer [10.1007/978-3-642-25364-5_3].
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