Personalization and Recommendation in Information Access

摘要

The goal of enhancing Information Retrieval (IR) models and methods towards user-aware and context-aware models has raised increasing interest in the research community, and is being identified as a key step in order to cope with the continuous growth of information environments (repositories, networks, users) worldwide. The notion of context refers to any dynamic condition occurring at the time when an information retrieval task takes place, and which may be relevant to fully define and understand a user need. When the notion of context focuses on persistent user characteristics and preferences, it is usually referred to as an issue of personalization.