Mobile Information Retrieval
Fabio Crestani, Stefano Mizzaro, Ivan Scagnetto
TL;DR
Mobile IR adapts traditional information retrieval techniques for mobile devices, addressing unique challenges like device characteristics, context-awareness, and specialized data collections, to improve user experience and relevance in mobile environments.
Contribution
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of Mobile IR, highlighting its unique characteristics, challenges, and recent research trends, offering a structured foundation for future work.
Findings
Mobile IR involves specialized document collections and data sources.
User studies and evaluation methodologies differ from classical IR.
Context-awareness plays a crucial role in Mobile IR effectiveness.
Abstract
Mobile Information Retrieval (Mobile IR) is a relatively recent branch of Information Retrieval (IR) that is concerned with enabling users to carry out, using a mobile device, all the classical IR operations that they were used to carry out on a desktop. This includes finding content available on local repositories or on the web in response to a user query, interacting with the system in an explicit or implicit way, reformulate the query and/or visualise the content of the retrieved documents, as well as providing relevance judgments to improve the retrieval process. This book is structured as follows. Chapter 2 provides a very brief overview of IR and of Mobile IR, briefly outlining what in Mobile IR is different from IR. Chapter 3 provides the foundations of Mobile IR, looking at the characteristics of mobile devices and what they bring to IR, but also looking at how the concept of…
Click any figure to enlarge with its caption.
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
Figure 4
Figure 5
Figure 6
Figure 7
Figure 8
Figure 9Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
Mobile Information Retrieval
Fabio Crestani
Stefano Mizzaro
Ivan Scagnetto