We have recently observed a convergence of technologies to foster the emergence of
lifelogging as a mainstream activity. Computer storage has become significantly cheaper …

We critically review literature on the association between searching and learning and
contribute to the formulation of a research agenda for searching as learning. The paper …

Information seeking is a fundamental human activity. In the modern world, it is frequently
conducted through interactions with search systems. The retrieval and comprehension of …

This open access book covers all facets of entity-oriented search—where “search” can be
interpreted in the broadest sense of information access—from a unified point of view, and …

We conducted a laboratory-based observational study where pairs of people performed
search tasks communicating verbally. Examination of the discourse allowed commonly used …

Conversational recommendation has recently attracted significant attention. As systems
must understand users' preferences, training them has called for conversational corpora …

This notebook gives an overview of activities, datasets, and results of the second year of
TREC Complex Answer Retrieval. We lay out the tasks offered and how provided datasets …

The evaluation of recommender systems is an area with unsolved questions at several
levels. Choosing the appropriate evaluation metric is one of such important issues. Ranking …

One of the most challenging aspects of designing interactive information retrieval (IIR)
experiments with users is the development of search tasks. We describe an evaluation of 20 …

A substantial progress in development of new and efficient tensor factorization techniques
has led to an extensive research of their applicability in recommender systems field. Tensor …