A crucial element in consumer electronic commerce is a catalog tool that not only finds the product for the user, but also convinces him that he has made the best choice. To do th...
This paper evaluates the robustness of learning from implicit feedback in web search. In particular, we create a model of user behavior by drawing upon user studies in laboratory ...
As the social interaction of Internet users increases, so does the need to effectively rank social media. We study the challenges of personalized ranking of blog posts. Web search...
Hassan Sayyadi, John Edmonds, Vagelis Hristidis, L...
In this poster, we describe an experiment exploring the effectiveness of a pen based text input device for use in query construction. Standard TREC queries were written, recognise...
This paper describes an investigation in progress into the searching behaviour of end-users and how it is affected by interface design. The project focused on qualitative data gat...
Victoria Manglano, Micheline Beaulieu, Stephen E. ...