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IAT
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
CubanSea: Cluster-Based Visualization of Search Results
—In recent years, there has been a move toward supporting the human element of Web search beyond a simple query box and a ranked list of search results. In this paper, we present...
Matthias Tilsner, Orland Hoeber, Adrian Fiech
CSE
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The Altruistic Searcher
—Recently researchers have argued that the prevailing view of Web search, as a solitary activity, is flawed: that, in reality, Web search can be an inherently collaborative task...
Barry Smyth, Maurice Coyle, Peter Briggs
WSDM
2009
ACM
112views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
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Finding text reuse on the web
With the overwhelming number of reports on similar events originating from different sources on the web, it is often hard, using existing web search paradigms, to find the origi...
Michael Bendersky, W. Bruce Croft
WSDM
2009
ACM
115views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Discovering and using groups to improve personalized search
Personalized Web search takes advantage of information about an individual to identify the most relevant results for that person. A challenge for personalization lies in collectin...
Jaime Teevan, Meredith Ringel Morris, Steve Bush
WSDM
2010
ACM
197views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
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Beyond DCG: user behavior as a predictor of a successful search
Web search engines are traditionally evaluated in terms of the relevance of web pages to individual queries. However, relevance of web pages does not tell the complete picture, si...
Ahmed Hassan, Rosie Jones, Kristina Lisa Klinkner
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
145views Education» more  SIGCSE 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Teaching web information retrieval to undergraduates
Topics in the field of Web Information Retrieval (IR) and web search are slowly being introduced at the undergraduate level. In this paper, we show how the curriculum for a new u...
Frank McCown
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Live web search experiments for the rest of us
There are significant barriers to academic research into user Web search preferences. Academic researchers are unable to manipulate the results shown by a major search engine to ...
Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Ramesh S. Sankaranar...
WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic extraction of clickable structured web contents for name entity queries
Today the major web search engines answer queries by showing ten result snippets, which need to be inspected by users for identifying relevant results. In this paper we investigat...
Xiaoxin Yin, Wenzhao Tan, Xiao Li, Yi-Chin Tu
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
CubeSVD: a novel approach to personalized Web search
As the competition of Web search market increases, there is a high demand for personalized Web search to conduct retrieval incorporating Web users' information needs. This pa...
Jian-Tao Sun, Hua-Jun Zeng, Huan Liu, Yuchang Lu, ...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Detecting near-duplicates for web crawling
Near-duplicate web documents are abundant. Two such documents differ from each other in a very small portion that displays advertisements, for example. Such differences are irrele...
Gurmeet Singh Manku, Arvind Jain, Anish Das Sarma