This paper reports results from a study in which we automatically classified the query reformulation patterns for 964,780 Web searching sessions (composed of 1,523,072 queries) in...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink
— Purpose: To investigate and identify the patterns of interaction between searchers and search engine during Web searching. Design: We examined 2,465,145 interactions from 534,5...
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...
Understanding query reformulation patterns is a key step towards next generation web search engines: it can help improving users’ web-search experience by predicting their inten...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Se...
Users frequently modify a previous search query in hope of retrieving better results. These modifications are called query reformulations or query refinements. Existing research h...