Introduction to special issue on contextual information retrieval systems

Time and information retrieval: Introduction to the special issue

With the rapid growth of digitised document resources, both on and off the web, and increased variety in types of document collections, future information systems will face growing difficulties in providing reliable, useful, and timely results. Time is a ubiquitous factor at many stages in the information-seeking process, with users having temporally-relevant information needs, and collections ...

Editorial: special issue on information retrieval

Information is continuing to grow exponentially and the increasing utilization of electronic and optical publishing technologies is making available large machine-readable document collections. There is a strong need for sophisticated and innovative retrieval systems which can provide satisfactory access to such amounts of stored information. Information Retrieval (IR) has been developing from ...

Attention aware systems: Introduction to special issue

Introduction to Special Issue of IP&M on Human-Computer Information Retrieval

Contemporary search engines are optimized for look-up scenarios where the information target is welldefined and human-machine interaction is limited to queries and search-result selections. In this role the search system serves as a cognitive prosthetic, temporarily enhancing people’s mental capabilities to provide access to additional information not known to the searcher or not readily access...

Editors's Introduction to the Special Issue on "Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval"

Semantic technologies and information retrieval hold a firm place among topical research directions of modern computer science. Advances in this field define the ways we use computers in the age of Internet and mobile technologies. We see high level of interest to semantics and information retrieval at our annual International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval (ASIR) worksh...