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What Does the User Want to Know About Web Resources? A User Model for Metadata

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Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH 2000)

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Abstract

MIRADOR aims to create tailored descriptions which assist users in selecting relevant resources on the Web. In this paper, we distinguish between the processes of searching with a query and selection among the results of the query, and we describe a user model for metadata which supports selection. We outline how we may combine the user model with aspects of tailoring to the query, so as to produce concise and useful descriptions of resources.

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  1. Dept of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK

    Diana Bental, Alison Cawsey & Bruce Eddy

  2. The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK

    Patrick Mc Andrew

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  1. School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 135 N. Bellefield Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA

    Peter Brusilovsky

  2. ITC-irst, I-38050, Povo Trento, Italy

    Oliviero Stock  & Carlo Strapparava  & 

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Bental, D., Cawsey, A., Andrew, P.M., Eddy, B. (2000). What Does the User Want to Know About Web Resources? A User Model for Metadata. In: Brusilovsky, P., Stock, O., Strapparava, C. (eds) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems. AH 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1892. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44595-1_26

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