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SIGIR
2009
ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Evaluating web search using task completion time
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 ...
Ya Xu, David Mease
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
Task complexity, vertical display and user interaction in aggregated search
Aggregated search is the task of blending results from specialized search services or verticals into the Web search results. While many studies have focused on aggregated search t...
Jaime Arguello, Wan-Ching Wu, Diane Kelly, Ashlee ...
WISE
2009
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Recommending Improvements to Web Applications Using Quality-Driven Heuristic Search
Planning out maintenance tasks to increase the quality of Web applications can be difficult for a manager. First, it is hard to evaluate the precise effect of a task on quality. S...
Stéphane Vaucher, Samuel Boclinville, Houar...
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
232views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
14 years 5 months ago
To search or to crawl?: towards a query optimizer for text-centric tasks
Text is ubiquitous and, not surprisingly, many important applications rely on textual data for a variety of tasks. As a notable example, information extraction applications derive...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Eugene Agichtein, Pranay ...
HICSS
2002
IEEE
91views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2002»
13 years 10 months ago
Evaluation of User Search in a Web-Database
The number of Web-databases has exploded during the last years. In order to justify the development of new information resources, it is essential to know if the use of existing re...
Joan C. Nordbotten, Svein Nordbotten