This paper makes three significant extensions to a noisy channel speller designed for standard written text to target the challenging domain of search queries. First, the noisy ch...
Jianfeng Gao, Xiaolong Li, Daniel Micol, Chris Qui...
Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-speciļ¬c search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute userā...
Query formulation is an essential part of successful information retrieval. The challenges in formulating effective queries are emphasized in web information search, because the w...
We describe results from Web search log studies aimed at elucidating user behaviors associated with queries and destination URLs that appear with different frequencies. We note th...
Doug Downey, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling, ...
The quality of the search experience has been an enduring problem for the World Wide Web. One of the well-known diļ¬culties is the tendency of users to use short, under-speciļ¬ed...
Ahu Sieg, Bamshad Mobasher, Steven L. Lytinen, Rob...