Session search is a complex search task that involves multiple search iterations triggered by
query reformulations. We observe a Markov chain in session search: user's judgment of …

Exploratory search requires the system to assist the user in comprehending the information
space and expressing evolving search intents for iterative exploration and retrieval of …

Dialogue management (DM) is responsible for predicting the next action of a dialogue
system according to the current dialogue state and thus plays a central role in task-oriented …

Improving the recall of information retrieval systems for similarity search in time series
databases is of great practical importance. In the manufacturing domain, these systems are …

We propose a novel formal model for optimizing interactive information retrieval interfaces.
To model interactive retrieval in a general way, we frame the task of an interactive retrieval …

Web search engines are typically designed to involve multiple pages of search results, and
the search users engaging in exploratory search with ad hoc queries are likely to access …

Browsing sessions are rich in elements useful to build profiles of user interests, but at the
same time HTML pages include noisy data such as advertisements, navigation menus and …

Dynamic aspects of Information Retrieval (IR), including changes found in data, users and
systems, are increasingly being utilized in search engines and information filtering systems …

Key to any research involving session search is the understanding of how a user's queries
evolve throughout the session. When a user creates a query reformulation, he or she is …

Modern information retrieval (IR) systems exhibit user dynamics through interactivity. These
dynamic aspects of IR, including changes found in data, users, and systems, are …