This paper presents an overview of automatic methods for building domain knowledge
structures (domain models) from text collections. Applications of domain models have a long …

In recent years evolutionary and immune-inspired approaches have been applied to content-
based and collaborative filtering. These biologically inspired approaches are well suited to …

Information systems that utilise contextual information have the potential of helping a user
identify relevant information more quickly and more accurately than systems that work the …

Content-based filtering can be deployed for personalised information dissemination on the
web, but this is a possibility that has been largely ignored. Nowadays, there are no …

While much research has been performed on query logs collected for major Web search
engines, query log analysis to enhance search on smaller and more focused collections has …

The Vector Space Model has been and to a great extent still is the de facto choice for profile
representation in content-based Information Filtering. However, user profiles represented as …

Personalisation can have a significant impact on the way information is disseminated on the
web today. Information Filtering can be a significant ingredient towards a personalised web …

Search applications have become very popular over the last two decades, one of the main
drivers being the advent of the Web. Nevertheless, searching on the Web is very different to …

Real-word entities can be mapped to unique entity identifiers through an Entity Name
System (ENS), to systematically support the re-use of these identifiers and disambiguate …

User evaluations of search engines are expensive and not easy to replicate. The problem is
even more pronounced when assessing adaptive search systems, for example system …