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JAIR
2011
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14 years 5 months ago
Identifying Aspects for Web-Search Queries
Many web-search queries serve as the beginning of an exploration of an unknown space of information, rather than looking for a specific web page. To answer such queries effectiv...
Fei Wu, Jayant Madhavan, Alon Y. Halevy
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 5 days ago
Are click-through data adequate for learning web search rankings?
Learning-to-rank algorithms, which can automatically adapt ranking functions in web search, require a large volume of training data. A traditional way of generating training examp...
Zhicheng Dou, Ruihua Song, Xiaojie Yuan, Ji-Rong W...
CIKM
2011
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Personalizing web search results by reading level
Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. W...
WWW
2005
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Analysis of topic dynamics in web search
We report on a study of topic dynamics for pages visited by a sample of people using MSN Search. We examine the predictive accuracies of probabilistic models of topic transitions ...
Xuehua Shen, Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz
SIGIR
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
How medical expertise influences web search interaction
Domain expertise can have an important influence on how people search. In this poster we present findings from a log-based study into how medical domain experts search the Web for...
Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jaime Teevan