The aims of the workshop on Personalised Multilingual Hypertext Retrieval (PMHR) are twofold: to set the scene in this challenging area, allowing the different communities engaged in related research topics to meet and to determine a program of actions to undertake; to devise a strategy for the evaluation of PMHR systems, which should define the collection of resources to use to evaluate such systems together with the evaluation metrics to use. The workshop results will be of use in the design of personalised tools that can help end-users fully benefit from the use of distributed multilingual hypertext content.
Background and MotivationSearch engines have traditionally followed "a one size fits all" paradigm and returned the same results for all users. They do not adapt to the user, the domain, or the search context. Thus, the search process and the number and type of results returned are not tailored to the individual user or their search situation. Personalised hypertext retrieval is concerned with adapting the search process to the user's needs. This includes adapting the system, the query-document similarity metrics, the search results, and their presentation to an individual user. The personalisation process can be based on models of the user, the domain, and the search context, but no standard representation or resources have evolved to-date.It can often be the case that non-native English speakers suffer limited or restricted online experiences as typically the majority of web content is still authored in English. Machine translated versions of content may be generated for some languages, but this is not always the case. This results in the user being greatly restricted in the content collections across which they can search.
1The papers accepted for the PMHR 2011 workshop start to explore the use of multilingual hypertext retrieval technologies and adaptive personalisation techniques to enable end-users to write queries in their native language, but receive results collated from content collections in a variety of languages, all tailored for consumption by the end-user.To reach useful results, it is necessary to solicit cooperation between researchers working in many different areas, such as hypertext and adaptive hypertexts, cross-lingual information retrieval, personalised search, personalisation for Web and hypertexts, and recommender systems.
Goals and ObjectivesPersonalised multilingual hypertext retrieval has to be viewed as an interdisciplinary research task, as it can include ideas from adaptive hypertext, user modelling for adaptive hypertext, personalisation for Web and hypertext, humancomputer interaction, and interactive authoring environments.The main goals of the workshop are: to develop a roadmap to follow which identifies the different research challenges that need to be faced in the design and implementation of personalised multilingual hypertext retrieval systems and tools of use for the end-user; to develop a strategy for the evaluation of PMHR systems, in addition, to define the collec...