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SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 6 months ago
Improving searcher models using mouse cursor activity
Web search components such as ranking and query suggestions analyze the user data provided in query and click logs. While this data is easy to collect and provides information abo...
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Georg Buscher, Kuansan ...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Challenging issues in iterative intelligent medical search
Searching for medical information on the Web is highly popular these days. To facilitate ordinary people to perform medical search and preliminary disease self-diagnosis, we have ...
Gang Luo, Chunqiang Tang
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Finding relevant documents using top ranking sentences: an evaluation of two alternative schemes
In this paper we present an evaluation of techniques that are designed to encourage web searchers to interact more with the results of a web search. Two specific techniques are ex...
Ryen White, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Understanding the relationship between searchers' queries and information goals
We describe results from Web search log studies aimed at elucidating user behaviors associated with queries and destination URLs that appear with different frequencies. We note th...
Doug Downey, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling, ...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Searchers' criteria For assessing web pages
We investigate the criteria used by online searchers when assessing the relevance of web pages to information-seeking tasks. Twenty four searchers were given three tasks each, and...
Anastasios Tombros, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose