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Jill Freyne

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IJCAI Conference 2003 Conference Paper

Collaborative Web Search

  • Barry Smyth
  • Evelyn Balfe
  • Peter Briggs
  • Maurice Coyle
  • Jill Freyne

Web search engines struggle to satisfy the needs of Web users. Users are notoriously poor at representing their needs in the form of a query, and search engines are poor at responding to vague queries. However progress has been made by introducing context into the search process. In this paper we describe and evaluate a novel approach to using context in Web search that adapts a generic search engine for the needs of a specialist community of users. This collaborative search method enjoys significant performance benefits and avoids the privacy and security concerns that are commonly associated with related personalization research.

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