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Task Force on User Adaptive Search Interfaces
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Current Events
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AMR 2004 - 2nd
International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval
(Part of the ECAI 2004 Symposium,
10-12 June 2004 in Aachen, Germany)
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This task force has been formed as part for the European Network of Excellence on Intelligent Technologies for Smart Adaptive Systems (EUNITE) to review the state of the art in user adaptive search interfaces and to initiate and intensify research collaboration between different research communities and the industry.
This page provides an overview of the project goals and the activity of the task force. If you have any question regarding the task force or like to join send an email to Andreas Nürnberger.
Motivation and brief task description
Over the last years a number of powerful methods have been proposed and realized, that enable a user to search in or browse large collections of documents which may consist of web pages, text or multimedia documents. Most of these methods provide either a simple keyword search interface (e.g., search engines like AltaVista and Google) or a fixed hierarchy or index for navigation (e.g., almost all library systems or the web search engine Yahoo). Unfortunately, the hierarchies and indexes are frequently subjectively labeled and often disjunctive. Therefore, on each level of the hierarchy a user has to select a specific keyword describing a category, even if the searched document might have been assigned to more than one listed category. This is especially critical if the user would assign a document to a different category and therefore might not find the searched information. A main problem of keyword search systems is that - even though the provided result list usually includes the searched documents if the keywords are well chosen - the documents in the result list are only sorted with respect to the given search terms (and usually some further criteria derived from the document collection). Documents belonging to different domains appear rather unsorted in the list. Meanwhile, search engines like Teoma or WiseNut try to classify the search results. However, similar to fixed hierarchies, user specific interests are neglected.
The aim of this task force is to collect state-of-the art methods that enable the use of user interests in the design of search interfaces. This should include methods for modeling user interests, analyzing user behavior (profiling) as well as design aspects of the interface itself (visualization or other techniques to support a user in browsing a document collection). Furthermore, a simple prototypical implementation should be developed and provided to the community.
Past Activities
As part of the activities of the task force, the following Workshops have been organized:
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HMAS 2003 - 3rd
International Workshop on Hybrid Methods for Adaptive Systems
(Part of the eunite 2003 Symposium,
10-12 July 2003 in Oulu, Finland)
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AMR 2003 - 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval
(Part of KI 2003, the 26th German Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, 15-18 September 2003, University of Hamburg, Germany).
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HMAS 2004 - 4th
International Workshop on Hybrid Methods for Adaptive Systems
(Part of the eunite 2004 Symposium,
10-12 June 2004 in Aachen, Germany)
Participants
The scholars and affiliated research groups listed in the following are currently involved in the activity of the task force:
- Marcin Detyniecki, CNRS, Paris, France
- Bogdan Gabrys, Bournemouth University, UK
- Detlef Nauck, BTexact Technologies, UK
- Andreas Nürnberger, University of Magdeburg, Germany
- Ana M. García Serrano, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
References
Books
- A. Nürnberger and M. Detyniecki (eds.), Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, Extended Post-Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop, LNCS 3094, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
Articles in Conference and Workshop Proceedings
- De Luca, E. W. and A. Nürnberger, Ontology-Based Semantic Online Classification of Documents: Supporting Users in Searching the Web, Proc. of the European Symposium on Intelligent Technologies (EUNITE 2004), 2004.
- García Serrano, Ana M., Alberto Ruiz Cristina, Paloma Martínez, José L. Martínez, and Francisco Bueno, Initial experience with automatic keyword extraction in the OmniPaper project, Proc. of the 1st Int. Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, Hamburg, 2003.
- García-Serrano, A., F. Bueno, P. Martínez, J.L. Martínez, Automatic Keyword Extraction for newsfinder, In: Nürnberger, A.; Detyniecki, M. (Eds.), Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, Post-Proceedings of First International Workshop, AMR 2003, LNCS 3094, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
- Grabski, K. and A. Nürnberger, A Search Interface for Context Based Categorization of Result Sets, Proc. of the European Symposium on Intelligent Technologies (EUNITE 2004), 2004.
- Martinez-Fernandez J.L., García-Serrano A., Martínez P., Villena J., Automatic Keyword Extraction for News Finder, In: Nürnberger, Andreas; Detyniecki, Marcin (Eds.), Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, Post-Proceedings of First International Workshop, AMR 2003, LNCS 3094, Springer-Verlag, 2004.
- Martinez-Fernandez J.L., Villena J., Fombella J., García-Serrano A., Martínez P., Goñi J.M., González-Cristóbal J.C., MIRACLE Approaches to Multilingual Information Retrieval: a Baseline for Future Research, In: CLEF 2003 Proceedings, Springer-Verlag, 2003.
- Martínez-Fernández, José L., Paloma Martínez, and Ana M. García Serrano, CLEF-Based evaluation of multilingual retrieval processes, Proceedings of AMR workshop 2004, ECAI 2004.
- Nürnberger, A. and A. Klose, Improving Clustering and Visualization of Multimedia Data Using Interactive User Feedback, Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 2002), pp. 993-999, 2002.
- Nürnberger, A. and M. Detyniecki. Content Based Analysis of Email Databases Using Self-Organizing Maps, Proc. of the European Symposium on Intelligent Technologies (EUNITE 2001), Tenerife, Spain, Verlag Mainz, Aachen, 2001.
- Nürnberger, A. and M. Detyniecki. User Adaptive Methods for Interactive Analysis of Document Databases, Proc. of the European Symposium on Intelligent Technologies (EUNITE 2002), Albufeira, Portugal, Verlag Mainz, Aachen, 2002.
- Nürnberger, A., User Adaptive Categorization of Document Collections, Working Notes of 1st International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval, pp. 95-106, 2003.
© 2003, Andreas Nürnberger
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