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ECIR
2006
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
The Effects on Topic Familiarity on Online Search Behaviour and Use of Relevance Criteria
This paper presents an experimental study on the effect of topic familiarity on the assessment behaviour of online searchers. In particular we investigate the effect of topic famil...
Lei Wen, Ian Ruthven, Pia Borlund
CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Biasing web search results for topic familiarity
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Giridhar Kumaran, Rosie Jones, Omid Madani