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SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Personalize web search results with user's location
We build a probabilistic model to identify implicit local intent queries, and leverage user’s physical location to improve Web search results for these queries. Evaluation on co...
Yumao Lu, Fuchun Peng, Xing Wei, Benoît Dumo...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: serendipity and its role in web search
The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
Jaime Teevan, Paul André, Susan T. Dumais