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IJWIS
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Patterns and transitions of query reformulation during web searching
— 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...
Bernard J. Jansen, Mimi Zhang, Amanda Spink
WEBI
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
From "Dango" to "Japanese Cakes": Query Reformulation Models and Patterns
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...
KDD
2006
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
How to Define Searching Sessions on Web Search Engines
We investigate three methods for defining a session on Web search engines. We examine 2,465,145 interactions from 534,507 Web searchers. We compare defining sessions using: 1) Int...
Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, Vinish Kathuria
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Predicting query reformulation during web searching
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