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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
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Ready to buy or just browsing?: detecting web searcher goals from interaction data
An improved understanding of the relationship between search intent, result quality, and searcher behavior is crucial for improving the effectiveness of web search. While recent p...
Qi Guo, Eugene Agichtein
IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
CubanSea: Cluster-Based Visualization of Search Results
—In recent years, there has been a move toward supporting the human element of Web search beyond a simple query box and a ranked list of search results. In this paper, we present...
Matthias Tilsner, Orland Hoeber, Adrian Fiech
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Why searchers switch: understanding and predicting engine switching rationales
Search engine switching is the voluntary transition between Web search engines. Engine switching can occur for a number of reasons, including user dissatisfaction with search resu...
Qi Guo, Ryen W. White, Yunqiao Zhang, Blake Anders...
UAI
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Inferring Informational Goals from Free-Text Queries: A Bayesian Approach
People using consumer software applications typically do not use technical jargon when querying an online database of help topics. Rather, they attempt to communicate their goals ...
David Heckerman, Eric Horvitz