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SIGIR
2011
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
ViewSer: enabling large-scale remote user studies of web search examination and interaction
Web search behaviour studies, including eye-tracking studies of search result examination, have resulted in numerous insights to improve search result quality and presentation. Ye...
Dmitry Lagun, Eugene Agichtein
WWW
2006
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Optimizing scoring functions and indexes for proximity search in type-annotated corpora
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Kriti Puniyani, Sujatha Das
WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Measuring semantic similarity between words using web search engines
Semantic similarity measures play important roles in information retrieval and Natural Language Processing. Previous work in semantic web-related applications such as community mi...
Danushka Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuk...
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CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Characterizing and predicting search engine switching behavior
Search engine switching describes the voluntarily transition from one Web search engine to another. In this paper we present a study of search engine switching behavior that combi...
Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais
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ICDE
2009
IEEE
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15 years 11 months ago
Top-k Exploration of Query Candidates for Efficient Keyword Search on Graph-Shaped (RDF) Data
Keyword queries enjoy widespread usage as they represent an intuitive way of specifying information needs. Recently, answering keyword queries on graph-structured data has emerged ...
Thanh Tran, Haofen Wang, Sebastian Rudolph, Philip...