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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Studying trailfinding algorithms for enhanced web search
Search engines return ranked lists of Web pages in response to queries. These pages are starting points for post-query navigation, but may be insufficient for search tasks involvi...
Adish Singla, Ryen White, Jeff Huang
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Are click-through data adequate for learning web search rankings?
Learning-to-rank algorithms, which can automatically adapt ranking functions in web search, require a large volume of training data. A traditional way of generating training examp...
Zhicheng Dou, Ruihua Song, Xiaojie Yuan, Ji-Rong W...
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Beyond position bias: examining result attractiveness as a source of presentation bias in clickthrough data
Leveraging clickthrough data has become a popular approach for evaluating and optimizing information retrieval systems. Although data is plentiful, one must take care when interpr...
Yisong Yue, Rajan Patel, Hein Roehrig
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
No clicks, no problem: using cursor movements to understand and improve search
Understanding how people interact with search engines is important in improving search quality. Web search engines typically analyze queries and clicked results, but these actions...
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Comparing cross-language query expansion techniques by degrading translation resources
The quality of translation resources is arguably the most important factor affecting the performance of a cross-language information retrieval system. While many investigations ha...
Paul McNamee, James Mayfield