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) …

There is currently a number of research work performed in the area of bridging the gap
between Information Retrieval (IR) and Online Social Networks (OSN). This is mainly done …

Personalized Query Expansion, the task of expanding queries with additional terms
extracted from the user-related vocabulary, is a well-known solution to improve the retrieval …

Query expansion has been widely adopted in Web search as a way of tackling the ambiguity
of queries. Personalized search utilizing folksonomy data has demonstrated an extreme …

With the exponential growth of information on the internet, users have been relying on
search engines for finding the precise documents. However, user queries are often short …

Weak semantic techniques rely on the integration of Semantic Web techniques with social
annotations and aim to embrace the strengths of both. In this article, we propose a novel …

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 introduce LAICOS, a social Web search engine as a contribution to the
growing area of Social Information Retrieval (SIR). Social information and personalization …

In the context of the bioCADDIE challenge addressing information retrieval of biomedical
datasets, we propose a method for retrieval of biomedical data sets with heterogenous …

Search personalization that considers the social dimension of the web has attracted a
significant volume of research in recent years. A user profile is usually needed to represent a …