The PESE 2014 workshop (Personalizing Search: From Search Engines to Exploratory Search) was held as part of UMAP 2014, the 22nd Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization on Monday (July 7th, 2014) in Aalborg, Denmark. PESE was organised as a joint workshop with PMIA (Personalised Multilingual Information Access); the two formed PIA14: Personalized Information Access Workshop.

The PESE workshop, organised in collaboration with the MindSee project,  emphasised the discussion on the field of exploratory search as well around other kinds of search personalization and aimed at bringing together researchers from multiple fields such as information retrieval, user modelling, exploratory search, information visualization, recommender systems, and psychophysiology, among others...