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SIGIR
2002
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Using part-of-speech patterns to reduce query ambiguity
Query ambiguity is a generally recognized problem, particularly in Web environments where queries are commonly only one or two words in length. In this study, we explore one techn...
James Allan, Hema Raghavan
SIGIR
1996
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Evaluating User Interfaces to Information Retrieval Systems: A Case Study on User Support
Designing good user interfaces to information retrieval systems is a complex activity. The design space is large and evaluation methodologies that go beyond the classical precisio...
Giorgio Brajnik, Stefano Mizzaro, Carlo Tasso
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Re-examining the potential effectiveness of interactive query expansion
Much attention has been paid to the relative effectiveness of interactive query expansion versus automatic query expansion. Although interactive query expansion has the potential ...
Ian Ruthven
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
How medical expertise influences web search interaction
Domain expertise can have an important influence on how people search. In this poster we present findings from a log-based study into how medical domain experts search the Web for...
Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jaime Teevan
SIGIR
2008
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Talking the talk vs. walking the walk: salience of information needs in querying vs. browsing
Traditional information retrieval models assume that users express their information needs via text queries (i.e., their "talk"). In this poster, we consider Web browsin...
Mikhail Bilenko, Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson...