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This paper demonstrates that a user of multilingual search has different interests depending on the language used, and that the user model should reflect this. To demonstrate this phenomenon, the paper proposes and evaluates a set of result re-ranking algorithms based on various user model representations.
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Ghorab, M.R., Lawless, S., O’Connor, A., Zhou, D., Wade, V. (2013). Multilingual vs. Monolingual User Models for Personalized Multilingual Information Retrieval. In: Carberry, S., Weibelzahl, S., Micarelli, A., Semeraro, G. (eds) User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization. UMAP 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7899. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38844-6_38
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