Some(what) grand challenges for information retrieval
@article{Belkin2008SomewhatGC, title={Some(what) grand challenges for information retrieval}, author={N. Belkin}, journal={SIGIR Forum}, year={2008}, volume={42}, pages={47-54} }
Although we see the positive results of information retrieval research embodied throughout the Internet, on our computer desktops, and in many other aspects of daily life, at the same time we notice that people still have a wide variety of difficulties in finding information that is useful in resolving their problematic situations. This suggests that there still remain substantial challenges for research in IR. Already in 1988, on the occasion of receiving the ACM SIGIR Gerard Salton Award… Expand
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