Second International Workshop on Adaptive Information Retrieval (air)

This talk provides an overview of research opportunities in adaptive search, with particular emphasis on web search and the consequent challenges of scale. Examples of adaptive search will be drawn from web search engines, and based in part on these examples, I will explore how adaption applies to search processes and search interfaces. The implications of web scale for research will be considered from various viewpoints: types of user, types of search, and search engine performance. Evaluation of adaptive web search remains a challenge, and I will briefly cover types of experiment, including access to collections and research tools. Some concluding remarks will be made on possible research directions and activities for the information retrieval research community. Second International Workshop on Adaptive Information Retrieval, London, UK