Personalization of information retrieval (PIR) is aimed at tailoring a search toward individual
users and user groups by taking account of additional information about users besides their …

Context such as the user's search history, demographics, devices, and surroundings, has
become prevalent in various domains of information seeking and retrieval such as mobile …

As data of an unprecedented scale are becoming accessible on the Web, personalization, of
narrowing down the retrieval to meet the user-specific information needs, is becoming more …

Abstract Information overload is a well-known problem facing biomedical professionals.
MEDLINE, the biomedical bibliographic database, adds hundreds of articles daily to the …

Navigating through the debris of the information explosion requires powerful, flexible search
tools. These tools must be both useful and useable; that is, they must do their jobs effectively …

This paper utilizes an attention concept approach in text mining to address the deficiencies
of existing keyword search engines. We show how an attention concept in conjunction with a …

Over the last decade portals have become an important facet of the Web and of structured
communities like companies. This paper presents a knowledge portal that has been …

Current search engines lack in support for multi-domain queries, ie, queries that can be
answered by combining information from two or more knowledge domains. Questions such …