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WWW
2004
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
ProThes: thesaurus-based meta-search engine for a specific application domain
In this poster we introduce ProThes, a pilot meta-search engine (MSE) for a specific application domain. ProThes combines three approaches: meta-search, graphical user interface (...
Pavel Braslavski, Gleb Alshanski, Anton Shishkin
CHI
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: serendipity and its role in web search
The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
Jaime Teevan, Paul André, Susan T. Dumais
AVI
2006
14 years 11 months ago
Oral messages improve visual search
Input multimodality combining speech and hand gestures has motivated numerous usability studies. Contrastingly, issues relating to the design and ergonomic evaluation of multimoda...
Suzanne Kieffer, Noelle Carbonell
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WWW
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Mining the search trails of surfing crowds: identifying relevant websites from user activity
The paper proposes identifying relevant information sources from the history of combined searching and browsing behavior of many Web users. While it has been previously shown that...
Mikhail Bilenko, Ryen W. White
CIKM
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
Using English information in non-English web search
The leading web search engines have spent a decade building highly specialized ranking functions for English web pages. One of the reasons these ranking functions are effective is...
Wei Gao, John Blitzer, Ming Zhou