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JSW
2008
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A Task-oriented Approach to Search Engine Usability Studies
Usability is a multi-dimensional characteristic of a computer system. This paper focuses on usability as a measurement of interaction between the user and the system. The research ...
Isak Taksa, Amanda Spink, Robert Goldberg
WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Automatic search engine performance evaluation with click-through data analysis
Performance evaluation is an important issue in Web search engine researches. Traditional evaluation methods rely on much human efforts and are therefore quite time-consuming. Wit...
Yiqun Liu, Yupeng Fu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyu...
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SEMCO
2008
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Exploiting Semantic Query Context to Improve Search Ranking
One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
Ziming Zhuang, Silviu Cucerzan
WWW
2007
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Query topic detection for reformulation
In this paper, we show that most multiple term queries include more than one topic and users usually reformulate their queries by topics instead of terms. In order to provide empi...
Xuefeng He, Jun Yan, Jinwen Ma, Ning Liu, Zheng Ch...
IPM
2007
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Analyzing imbalance among homogeneous index servers in a web search system
The performance of parallel query processing in a cluster of index servers is crucial for modern web search systems. In such a scenario, the response time basically depends on the...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Ber...