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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Automatically identifying localizable queries
Personalization of web search results as a technique for improving user satisfaction has received notable attention in the research community over the past decade. Much of this wo...
Michael J. Welch, Junghoo Cho
IPM
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Multitasking during Web search sessions
A user
Amanda Spink, Minsoo Park, Bernard J. Jansen, Jan ...
IPM
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
How are we searching the World Wide Web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs
The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examin...
Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink
DEBU
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Web Information Extraction and User Modeling: Towards Closing the Gap
Web search engines have become the primary method of accessing information on the web. Billions of queries are submitted to major web search engines, reflecting a wide range of in...
Eugene Agichtein
IJCAI
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Personalisation of Web Search
The availability of web search has revolutionised the way people discover information, yet as search services maintain larger and larger indexes they are in danger of becoming a v...
Kevin Keenoy, Mark Levene
IADIS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Understanding Expert Search Strategies for Designing User-Friendly Search Interfaces
Web search engines face an extremely heterogeneous user population from web novices to highly skilled experts. Currently, the search strategies of the experienced web searchers ar...
Anne Aula, Mika Käki
IADIS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Query-Based Indexing in Collaorative Search
The success of Web search is often limited by a variety of factors. Typical queries are vague and imprecise. At the same time, the Web is a dynamic and unmoderated collection and ...
Jill Freyne, Barry Smyth
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Improve Web Search Using Image Snippets
The Web has become the largest information repository over the world. Therefore, effectively and efficiently searching the Web becomes a key challenge. Previous research on Web se...
Xiao-Bing Xue, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang
NIPS
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Evaluating Search Engines by Modeling the Relationship Between Relevance and Clicks
We propose a model that leverages the millions of clicks received by web search engines to predict document relevance. This allows the comparison of ranking functions when clicks ...
Ben Carterette, Rosie Jones
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Exploiting Image Contents in Web Search
Web search is a challenging task. Previous research mainly exploits texts on the Web pages or link information between the pages, while multimedia information is largely ignored. ...
Zhi-Hua Zhou, Hong-Bin Dai