Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Capturing knowledge of user preferences: ontologies in recommender systems
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Knowledge capture
Personalized web search by mapping user queries to categories
Proceedings of the eleventh international conference on Information and knowledge management
Stereotypes, Student Models and Scrutability
ITS '00 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Persona: A Contextualized and Personalized Web Search
HICSS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 3 - Volume 3
Ontology Based Personalized Search
ICTAI '99 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence
Web metasearch: rank vs. score based rank aggregation methods
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Ontological user profiling in recommender systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Using ODP metadata to personalize search
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Personalizing search via automated analysis of interests and activities
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Anonymous personalization in collaborative web search
Information Retrieval
The effect of brand awareness on the evaluation of search engine results
CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A large-scale evaluation and analysis of personalized search strategies
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Supporting intelligent Web search
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Are people biased in their use of search engines?
Communications of the ACM - Alternate reality gaming
User models for adaptive hypermedia and adaptive educational systems
The adaptive web
Personalized search on the world wide web
The adaptive web
Empirical analysis of predictive algorithms for collaborative filtering
UAI'98 Proceedings of the Fourteenth conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
A decomposition model for the layered evaluation of interactive adaptive systems
UM'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on User Modeling
Intelligent techniques for web personalization
ITWP'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization
Using thematic ontologies for user- and group-based adaptive personalization in web searching
AMR'08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval: identifying, Summarizing, and Recommending Image and Music
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This paper provides an overview of Prospector, a personalized Internet meta-search engine, which utilizes a combination of ontological information, ratings-based models of user interests, and complementary theme-oriented group models to recommend (through re-ranking) search results obtained from an underlying search engine. Re-ranking brings "closer to the top" those items that are of particular interest to a user or have high relevance to a given theme. A user-based, real-world evaluation has shown that the system is effective in promoting results of interest, but lags behind Google in user acceptance, possibly due to the absence of features popularized by said search engine. Overall, users would consider employing a personalized search engine to perform searches with terms that require disambiguation and / or contextualization.