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CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
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...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
Searching for people on the Web is one of the most common query types to the web search engines today. However, when a person name is queried, the returned webpages often contain ...
ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
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 ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
Personalized search is a promising way to better serve different users' information needs. Search history is one of the major information sources for search personalization. ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
2008
ACM
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...