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...
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...
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...
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...