Collaborative and social information retrieval and access [electronic resource] : techniques for improved user modeling / [edited by] Max Chevalier, Christine Julien, Chantal Soul�e-Dupuy.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.Description: electronic texts (xvii, 371 p. : ill.) : digital filesISBN:- 9781605663074 (ebook)
- 1605663077 (ebook)
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- QA76.9.U83 C62 2009e
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-362) and index.
State-of-the-art recommender systems -- Computing recommendations with collaborative filtering -- Analyzing communal tag relationships for enhanced navigation and user modeling -- Adaptive user profiles -- Modeling users for adaptive information retrieval by capturing user intent -- Ontology-based user competencies modeling for e-learning recommender systems -- Combining relevance information in a synchronous collaborative information retrieval environment -- DemonD -- COBRAS -- Music recommendation by modeling user's preferred perspectives of content, singer/genre and popularity -- Web content recommendation methods based on reinforcement learning -- Collaborating agents for adaptations to mobile users -- A user-centered approach to the retrieval of information in a adapative web site -- Personalized information retrieval in a semantic-based learning environment -- A semantic web based approach for context-aware user query formulation and information retrieval.
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"This book deals with the improvement of user modeling in the context of Collaborative and Social Information Access and Retrieval (CSIRA) techniques"--Provided by publisher.
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