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SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Interactive Internet search: keyword, directory and query reformulation mechanisms compared
This article compares search effectiveness when using query-based Internet search (via the Google search engine), directory-based search (via Yahoo) and phrasebased query reformul...
Peter Bruza, Robert McArthur, Simon Dennis
KDD
2006
ACM
185views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
14 years 5 months ago
How to Define Searching Sessions on Web Search Engines
We investigate three methods for defining a session on Web search engines. We examine 2,465,145 interactions from 534,507 Web searchers. We compare defining sessions using: 1) Int...
Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Vinish Kathuria
ACMIDC
2009
13 years 8 months ago
How children search the internet with keyword interfaces
Children are among the most frequent users of the Internet, yet searching and browsing the web can present many challenges. Studies over the past two decades on how children searc...
Allison Druin, Elizabeth Foss, Leshell Hatley, Eva...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Query topic detection for reformulation
In this paper, we show that most multiple term queries include more than one topic and users usually reformulate their queries by topics instead of terms. In order to provide empi...
Xuefeng He, Jun Yan, Jinwen Ma, Ning Liu, Zheng Ch...
ERCIMDL
1999
Springer
154views Education» more  ERCIMDL 1999»
13 years 9 months ago
Effectiveness of Keyword-Based Display and Selection of Retrieval Results for Interactive Searches
Abstract. We present an approach to increasing the effectiveness of rankedoutput retrieval systems that relies on graphical display and user manipulation of “views” of retrieva...
Ezio Berenci, Claudio Carpineto, Vittorio Giannini...