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- Allan, James, et al.
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Frontiers, Challenges, and Opportunities for Information Retrieval – Report from SWIRL 2012, The Second Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne
- 2012
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Ingår i: SIGIR Forum. - : ACM. - 0163-5840. ; 46:1, s. 2-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During a three-day workshop in February 2012, 45 Information Retrieval researchers met to discuss long-range challenges and opportunities within the field. The result of the workshop is a diverse set of research directions, project ideas, and challenge areas. This report describes the workshop format, provides summaries of broad themes that emerged, includes brief descriptions of all the ideas, and provides detailed discussion of six proposals that were voted "most interesting" by the participants. Key themes include the need to: move beyond ranked lists of documents to support richer dialog and presentation, represent the context of search and searchers, provide richer support for information seeking, enable retrieval of a wide range of structured and unstructured content, and develop new evaluation methodologies.
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- Belkin, Nicholas J, et al.
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Report on the SIGIR workshop on "entertain me" : supporting complex search tasks
- 2011
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Ingår i: SIGIR Forum. - : Association for Computing Machinery. - 0163-5840 .- 1558-0229. ; 45
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Searchers with a complex information need typically slice-and-dice their problem into several queries and subqueries, and laboriously combine the answers post hoc to solve their tasks. Consider planning a social event at the last day of SIGIR, in the unknown city of Beijing, factoring in distances, timing, and preferences on budget, cuisine, and entertainment. A system supporting the entire search episode should "know" a lot, either from profiles or implicit information, or from explicit information in the query or from feedback. This may lead to the (interactive) construction of a complexly structured query, but sometimes the most obvious query for a complex need is dead simple: entertain me. Rather than returning ten-blue-lines in response to a 2.4-word query, the desired system should support searchers during their whole task or search episode, by iteratively constructing a complex query or search strategy, by exploring the result-space at every stage, and by combining the partial answers into a coherent whole.The workshop brought together a varied group of researchers covering both user and system centered approaches, who worked together on the problem and potential solutions. There was a strong feeling that we made substantial progress. First, there was general optimism on the wealth of contextual information that can be derived from context or natural interactions without the need for obstrusive explicit feedback. Second, the task of "contextual suggestions"--matching specific types of results against rich profiles--was identified as a manageable first step, and concrete plans for such as track were discussed in the aftermath of the workshop. Third, the identified dimensions of variation--such as the level of engagement, or user versus system initiative--give clear suggestions of the types of input a searcher is willing or able to give and the type of response expected from a system.
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- Murdock, Vanessa, et al.
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Report on the Workshop onSearch and Exploration of X-Rated Information(SEXI 2013) : WSDM WORKSHOP REPORT
- 2013
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Ingår i: SIGIR Forum. - 0163-5840 .- 1558-0229. ; 47:1, s. 31-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Workshop on Search and Exploration of X-Rated Information (SEXI) was presentedfor the rst time at the Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) 2013 inRome, Italy. It represents a rst attempt to study adult content from the perspective of theresearch communities in Web Search and Data Mining. To this end, ve short papers werepresented covering dierent research questions in searching and evaluating adult content onthe Web, with two invited talks from experts in adult content from the elds of evolutionarypsychology and media studies. The day ended with a panel that included the two invitedspeakers, and an expert in human tracking on the Web.
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- Murdock, Vanessa, et al.
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Search and exploration of X-Rated information (SEXI 2013)
- 2013
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Ingår i: WSDM 2013. - New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery. - 9781450318693 ; , s. 795-796
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Adult content is pervasive on the Web, has been a driving factor in the adoption of the Internet medium. It is responsible for a significant fraction of traffic and revenues, yet rarely attracts attention in research. We propose that the research questions surrounding adult content access behaviors are unique, and we believe interesting and valuable research in this area can be done ethically. The workshop on Search and Exploration of X-Rated Information (SEXI) addresses these issues for information access tasks related to adult content.
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