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SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 7 months ago
Creating temporally dynamic web search snippets
Content on the Internet is always changing. We explore the value of biasing search result snippets towards new webpage content. We present results from a user study comparing trad...
Krysta Marie Svore, Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais,...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Learning Semantic Categories from Clickthrough Logs
As the web grows larger, knowledge acquisition from the web has gained increasing attention. In this paper, we propose using web search clickthrough logs to learn semantic categor...
Mamoru Komachi, Shimpei Makimoto, Kei Uchiumi, Man...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Query word deletion prediction
Web search query logs contain traces of users’ search modifications. One strategy users employ is deleting terms, presumably to obtain greater coverage. It is useful to model a...
Rosie Jones, Daniel C. Fain
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
Efficient query processing in geographic web search engines
Geographic web search engines allow users to constrain and order search results in an intuitive manner by focusing a query on a particular geographic region. Geographic search tec...
Yen-Yu Chen, Torsten Suel, Alexander Markowetz
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