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WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 13 days ago
MedSearch: a specialized search engine for medical information
People are thirsty for medical information. Existing Web search engines often cannot handle medical search well because they do not consider its special requirements. Often a medi...
Gang Luo, Chunqiang Tang, Hao Yang, Xing Wei
WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 13 days ago
Understanding user goals in web search
Previous work on understanding user web search behavior has focused on how people search and what they are searching for, but not why they are searching. In this paper, we describ...
Daniel E. Rose, Danny Levinson
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 13 days ago
Classifying web sites
In this paper, we present a novel method for the classification of Web sites. This method exploits both structure and content of Web sites in order to discern their functionality....
Christoph Lindemann, Lars Littig
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 26 days ago
Improving search engines using human computation games
Work on evaluating and improving the relevance of web search engines typically use human relevance judgments or clickthrough data. Both these methods look at the problem of learni...
Hao Ma, Raman Chandrasekar, Chris Quirk, Abhishek ...
CIKM
2008
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Using the current browsing context to improve search relevance
In this paper, we investigate the problem of improving the relevance of a Web search engine by adapting it to the dynamic needs of the user. We examine a representative case of su...
Mandar Rahurkar, Silviu Cucerzan