Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Given a context by any other name: methodological tools for taming the unruly beast
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
Placing search in context: the concept revisited
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Issues of context in information retrieval (IR): an introduction to the special issue
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Issues of context in information retrieval
On contexts of information seeking
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
What we talk about when we talk about context
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Context in problem solving: a survey
The Knowledge Engineering Review
The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context (The Information Retrieval Series)
Time, location and interest: an empirical and user-centred study
IIiX Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Information interaction in context
IIiX Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Information interaction in context
Measuring online information seeking context, Part 1: Background and method
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Introduction to Information Retrieval
Introduction to Information Retrieval
Human-Computer Interaction
Context effect on query formulation and subjective relevance in health searches
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
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The context in which a search takes place affects the Information Retrieval (IR) process. It affects the searcher's interaction with the IR system, his expectations and his decisions about the documents he retrieves. Therefore, knowing more about what features are important in a searcher's context and what they are used for, can help design more useful and successful IR systems. This paper has three main contributions. It starts with a literature review on the definition of context and on context taxonomies (1). A systematic representation of context features and uses, based on related work, is then proposed (2) and used in a survey on the use of context features in IR (3). This analysis has concluded that interaction context is the most used category of features and Indexing and Searching are the tasks where context features are most employed. This work, an initial phase of a PhD research, provides a systematic review of what is being done in the area and proposes a taxonomy for IR.