Log data constitutes a relevant aspect in the evaluation process of multilingual search services. Activity logs allow to study the usage of search engines and to better adapt them ...
Thomas Mandl, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Julia Maria...
We investigate a representative case of sudden information need change of Web users. By analyzing search engine query logs, we show that the majority of queries submitted by users...
ct One significant effort towards combining the virtues of Web search, viz. being accessible to untrained users and able to cope with vastly heterogeneous data, with those of dat...
In this paper, we define and present a comprehensive classification of user intent for Web searching. The classification consists of three hierarchical levels of informational, na...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink
Accurate topical classification of user queries allows for increased effectiveness and efficiency in general-purpose web search systems. Such classification becomes critical if th...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, ...