With the ever increasing size of the web, relevant information extraction on the Internet with
a query formed by a few keywords has become a big challenge. Query Expansion (QE) …

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 …

Most of the existing Web search solutions are built for satisfying broad set of users
regardless whether naïve or professionals. Further, with the emergence of high speed …

As a result of the importance of academic collaboration at smart conferences, various
researchers have utilized recommender systems to generate effective recommendations for …

We present in this paper a contribution to IR modeling by proposing a new ranking function
called SoPRa that considers the social dimension of the Web. This social dimension is any …

In this paper, we discuss a contribution towards the integration of social information in the
index structure of an IR system. Since each user has his/her own understanding and point of …

In this paper, we present a contribution to IR modeling. We propose an approach that
computes on the fly, a Personalized Social Document Representation (PSDR) of each …

Folksonomy (aka Collaborative tagging) systems provide a platform to the users where they
can annotate a web resource by using any tag of interest. It is a first-hand information directly …

Query expansion is a query pre-processing technique that adds to a given query, terms that
are likely to occur in relevant documents in order to improve information retrieval accuracy. A …

Personalized information retrieval has become more crucial and challenging in today's time,
as every user is demanding information according to their own perspectives. To achieve …