Short assigned question-answering style tasks are often used as a probe to understand how users do search. While such assigned tasks are simple to test and are effective at elicit...
By examining searcher behavior on a large search engine, we have identified seven basic kinds of task behaviors that can be observed in web search session logs. In the studies rep...
Daniel M. Russell, Diane Tang, Melanie Kellar, Rob...
We consider experiments to measure the quality of a web search algorithm based on how much total time users take to complete assigned search tasks using that algorithm. We first ...
Searching for a person name in a Web Search Engine usually leads to a number of web pages that refer to several people sharing the same name. In this paper we study whether it is ...
Javier Artiles, Julio Gonzalo, Enrique Amigó...
The third WePS (Web People Search) Evaluation campaign took place in 2009-2010 and attracted the participation of 13 research groups from Europe, Asia and North America. Given the ...
Javier Artiles, Andrew Borthwick, Julio Gonzalo, S...