Information filtering and information retrieval: two sides of the same coin?
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on information filtering
Document filtering with inference networks
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Maximum likelihood estimation for filtering thresholds
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Design criteria for children's Web portals: the users speak out
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Differences and similarities in information seeking: children and adults as web users
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Issues of context in information retrieval
The Journal of Machine Learning Research
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
Open user profiles for adaptive news systems: help or harm?
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
What Happened to Content-Based Information Filtering?
ICTIR '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval: Advances in Information Retrieval Theory
Personalized news recommendation based on click behavior
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Children's information retrieval: beyond examining search strategies and interfaces
FDIA'08 Proceedings of the 2nd BCS IRSG conference on Future Directions in Information Access
Web search query assistance functionality for young audiences
ECIR'11 Proceedings of the 33rd European conference on Advances in information retrieval
Detection of news feeds items appropriate for children
ECIR'12 Proceedings of the 34th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Re-leashed! the PuppyIR framework for developing information services for children, adults and dogs
ECIR'13 Proceedings of the 35th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Specifics of information retrieval for young users: A survey
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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This paper presents an interaction-based information filtering system designed for the needs of children accessing multiple streams of information. This is an emerging problem due to the increased information access and engagement by children for their education and entertainment, and the explosion of stream-based information sources on most topics. It has been shown that children have difficulties formulating text-based queries and using interfaces primarily designed for adults. The in-progress system presented in this paper attempts to address these difficulties by employing an interaction-based interface that simplifies the expression of information needs and adapts itself to user interests over time. To overcome issues of content moderation, the system aggregates multiple child-friendly information feeds and performs offline processing to facilitate topic filtering. A set of standing topics are created for initial interaction and subsequent interactions are used to infer and refine which topics the child would most likely want to have presented. A simple and easy-to-use interface is presented which uses relevance information to determine the appropriate size of the document title to display to act as a relevance-cue to the user. The planned research focuses on validating the interaction-based approach with both child and adult populations to discover the differences and similarities that may exist.