1. An information retrieval system comprising, embodied in one or more non-transitory machine accessible storage media: an electronic content and interaction analyzer module to cause one or more computing devices to generate user-specific semantic information for a plurality of pieces of stored content and interactions data; a query developer module to cause the one or more computing devices to: with the user-specific semantic information, interpret a search request; and based on the interpretation of the search request, develop a search query reflecting the user-specific semantic information; and a query executer module to cause the one or more computing devices to: execute the search query to obtain query results; and output a representation of the query results to an output device of the one or more computing devices; wherein the electronic content and interaction analyzer module is to extract a plurality of instances of a word from the stored content and interactions data, associate different user-specific semantic information with different instances of the extracted word, and store data indicative of the associations of different user-specific semantic information with different instances of the extracted word in a user-specific model, and wherein the query developer module is to interface with the user-specific model to develop the search query.
1. An information retrieval system comprising, embodied in one or more non-transitory machine accessible storage media: an electronic content and interaction analyzer module to cause one or more computing devices to generate user-specific semantic information for a plurality of pieces of stored content and interactions data; a query developer module to cause the one or more computing devices to: with the user-specific semantic information, interpret a search request; and based on the interpretation of the search request, develop a search query reflecting the user-specific semantic information; and a query executer module to cause the one or more computing devices to: execute the search query to obtain query results; and output a representation of the query results to an output device of the one or more computing devices; wherein the electronic content and interaction analyzer module is to extract a plurality of instances of a word from the stored content and interactions data, associate different user-specific semantic information with different instances of the extracted word, and store data indicative of the associations of different user-specific semantic information with different instances of the extracted word in a user-specific model, and wherein the query developer module is to interface with the user-specific model to develop the search query. 14. The information retrieval system of claim 1 , wherein the query executer module is to identify a plurality of alternative topics by analyzing the query results; output the plurality of alternative topics to an output device of the one or more computing devices; receive an interactive selection of at least one of the plurality of alternative topics via an input device of the one or more computing devices; and output query results associated with the selected topic to the output device.