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Find this for me: mobile information retrieval on the open web

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Ifeyinwa Okoye,

Julian CerrutiAuthors Info & Claims

IUI '11: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

Pages 3 - 12

https://doi.org/10.1145/1943403.1943407

Published: 13 February 2011 Publication History

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With all the information available on the web, there is a growing need to provide mobile access to this information for the large, growing population of mobile internet users. In this paper, we propose a solution to the problem of open web mobile information retrieval, by conducting a dialogue with the user over a simple text-based interface. Using techniques from NLP, web page analysis, and information extraction, our approach automatically navigates web sites on the user's behalf and extracts specific information from those sites to present to the user textually. Empirical evaluation shows that our approach to open web information retrieval is feasible, and a qualitative evaluation validates that such a system meets user needs for mobile information access.

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Tan EGoh D(2015)A study of social interaction during mobile information seekingJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology10.1002/asi.2331066:10(2031-2044)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/asi.23310
Tan EGoh DTheng YFoo S(2012)Social Interaction Patterns during Mobile Information SeekingThe Outreach of Digital Libraries: A Globalized Resource Network10.1007/978-3-642-34752-8_14(106-115)Online publication date: 2012
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34752-8_14

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Find this for me: mobile information retrieval on the open web
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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IUI '11: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

February 2011

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ISBN:9781450304191

DOI:10.1145/1943403

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Rutgers University, USA
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Tan EGoh D(2015)A study of social interaction during mobile information seekingJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology10.1002/asi.2331066:10(2031-2044)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/asi.23310
Tan EGoh DTheng YFoo S(2012)Social Interaction Patterns during Mobile Information SeekingThe Outreach of Digital Libraries: A Globalized Resource Network10.1007/978-3-642-34752-8_14(106-115)Online publication date: 2012
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34752-8_14

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