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CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The Altruistic Searcher
—Recently researchers have argued that the prevailing view of Web search, as a solitary activity, is flawed: that, in reality, Web search can be an inherently collaborative task...
Barry Smyth, Maurice Coyle, Peter Briggs
ICS
2009
Tsinghua U.
13 years 11 months ago
High-performance regular expression scanning on the Cell/B.E. processor
Matching regular expressions (regexps) is a very common workload. For example, tokenization, which consists of recognizing words or keywords in a character stream, appears in ever...
Daniele Paolo Scarpazza, Gregory F. Russell
HICSS
2009
IEEE
74views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
SAVVY: A Semantic Associative Browsing System for Heterogeneous Knowledge Resources
This paper presents a semantic associative browsing system called Semantic Association Various Viewpoint sYstem (SAVVY). Recently, the number of users who employ search engines fo...
Takafumi Nakanishi, Koji Zettsu, Yutaka Kidawara, ...
ENTER
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
An Analysis of Search Engine Use for Travel Planning
Search engines have become a central part of the internet marketing strategy of tourism businesses and, as such, it is essential that destination marketing organizations have a su...
Daniel R. Fesenmaier, Zheng Xiang, Bing Pan, Rob L...
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
145views Education» more  SIGCSE 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Teaching web information retrieval to undergraduates
Topics in the field of Web Information Retrieval (IR) and web search are slowly being introduced at the undergraduate level. In this paper, we show how the curriculum for a new u...
Frank McCown
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Real time search user behavior
Real time search is an increasingly important area of information seeking on the Web. In this research, we analyze 1,005,296 user interactions with a real time search engine over ...
Bernard J. Jansen, Gerry Campbell, Matthew Gregg
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
How does search behavior change as search becomes more difficult?
Search engines make it easy to check facts online, but finding some specific kinds of information sometimes proves to be difficult. We studied the behavioral signals that suggest ...
Anne Aula, Rehan M. Khan, Zhiwei Guan
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Visualizing differences in web search algorithms using the expected weighted hoeffding distance
We introduce a new dissimilarity function for ranked lists, the expected weighted Hoeffding distance, that has several advantages over current dissimilarity measures for ranked s...
Mingxuan Sun, Guy Lebanon, Kevyn Collins-Thompson
KDD
2009
ACM
183views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
OLAP on search logs: an infrastructure supporting data-driven applications in search engines
Search logs, which contain rich and up-to-date information about users' needs and preferences, have become a critical data source for search engines. Recently, more and more ...
Bin Zhou 0002, Daxin Jiang, Jian Pei, Hang Li
WWW
2002
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Probabilistic question answering on the web
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...