Machine learning is often used to automatically solve human tasks. In this paper, we look for tasks where machine learning algorithms are not as good as humans with the hope of ga...
In this paper we analyze the Web coverage of three search engines, Google, Yahoo and MSN. We conducted a 15 month study collecting 15,770 Web content or information pages linked f...
Yang Sok Kim, Byeong Ho Kang, Paul Compton, Hirosh...
In this paper, we study a new problem of mining causal relation of queries in search engine query logs. Causal relation between two queries means event on one query is the causati...
Yizhou Sun, Kunqing Xie, Ning Liu, Shuicheng Yan, ...
Researchers of commercial search engines often collect data using the application programming interface (API) or by "scraping" results from the web user interface (WUI),...
Personalized web search is a promising way to improve search quality by customizing search results for people with individual information goals. However, users are uncomfortable w...