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CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Implicit user modeling for personalized search
Information retrieval systems (e.g., web search engines) are critical for overcoming information overload. A major deficiency of existing retrieval systems is that they generally...
Xuehua Shen, Bin Tan, ChengXiang Zhai
APWEB
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis for Personalized Web Search
Web users use search engine to find useful information on the Internet. However current web search engines return answer to a query independent of specific user information need. S...
Chenxi Lin, Gui-Rong Xue, Hua-Jun Zeng, Yong Yu
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Personalizing search via automated analysis of interests and activities
We formulate and study search algorithms that consider a user’s prior interactions with a wide variety of content to personalize that user’s current Web search. Rather than re...
Jaime Teevan, Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Predicting query difficulty on the web by learning visual clues
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Improving collection selection with overlap awareness in P2P search engines
Collection selection has been a research issue for years. Typically, in related work, precomputed statistics are employed in order to estimate the expected result quality of each ...
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Peter Triantafi...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Learning user interaction models for predicting web search result preferences
Evaluating user preferences of web search results is crucial for search engine development, deployment, and maintenance. We present a real-world study of modeling the behavior of ...
Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan T. Dumais, Rob...
SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Improving web search ranking by incorporating user behavior information
We show that incorporating user behavior data can significantly improve ordering of top results in real web search setting. We examine alternatives for incorporating feedback into...
Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan T. Dumais
JCDL
2006
ACM
143views Education» more  JCDL 2006»
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Categorizing web search results into meaningful and stable categories using fast-feature techniques
When search results against digital libraries and web resources have limited metadata, augmenting them with meaningful and stable category information can enable better overviews ...
Bill Kules, Jack Kustanowitz, Ben Shneiderman
VL
2006
IEEE
100views Visual Languages» more  VL 2006»
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Mica: A Web-Search Tool for Finding API Components and Examples
Because software libraries are numerous and large, learning how to use them is a common and problematic task for experienced programmers and novices alike. Internet search engines...
Jeffrey Stylos, Brad A. Myers
ICDE
2006
IEEE
128views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Searching and Ranking Documents based on Semantic Relationships
Just as the link structure of the web is a critical component in today's web search, complex relationships (i.e., the different ways the dots are connected) will be an import...
Boanerges Aleman-Meza