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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Predicting query performance on the web
Niranjan Balasubramanian, Giridhar Kumaran, Vitor ...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Query word deletion prediction
Web search query logs contain traces of users’ search modifications. One strategy users employ is deleting terms, presumably to obtain greater coverage. It is useful to model a...
Rosie Jones, Daniel C. Fain
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Predicting query difficulty on the web by learning visual clues
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Predicting escalations of medical queries based on web page structure and content
Logs of users' searches on Web health topics can exhibit signs of escalation of medical concerns, where initial queries about common symptoms are followed by queries about se...
Ryen W. White, Eric Horvitz
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Query quality: user ratings and system predictions
Numerous studies have examined the ability of query performance prediction methods to estimate a query’s quality for system effectiveness measures (such as average precision). ...
Claudia Hauff, Franciska de Jong, Diane Kelly, Lei...