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JIS
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Employing log metrics to evaluate search behaviour and success: case study BBC search engine
Argues that metrics can be generated from search transactional Web logs that can help evaluate search engine effectiveness. Search logs from the BBC Website were analysed and metr...
Paul Huntington, David Nicholas, Hamid R. Jamali M...
PKDD
2009
Springer
149views Data Mining» more  PKDD 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Learning to Disambiguate Search Queries from Short Sessions
Web searches tend to be short and ambiguous. It is therefore not surprising that Web query disambiguation is an actively researched topic. To provide a personalized experience for ...
Lilyana Mihalkova, Raymond J. Mooney
HICSS
2009
IEEE
92views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Task Behaviors During Web Search: The Difficulty of Assigning Labels
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...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The infocious web search engine: improving web searching through linguistic analysis
In this paper we present the Infocious Web search engine [23]. Our goal in creating Infocious is to improve the way people find information on the Web by resolving ambiguities pre...
Alexandros Ntoulas, Gerald Chao, Junghoo Cho
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Improving search engines using human computation games
Work on evaluating and improving the relevance of web search engines typically use human relevance judgments or clickthrough data. Both these methods look at the problem of learni...
Hao Ma, Raman Chandrasekar, Chris Quirk, Abhishek ...