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CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Analyzing and evaluating query reformulation strategies in web search logs
Users frequently modify a previous search query in hope of retrieving better results. These modifications are called query reformulations or query refinements. Existing research h...
Jeff Huang, Efthimis N. Efthimiadis
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
125views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
16 years 3 months ago
Identifying meaningful return information for XML keyword search
Keyword search enables web users to easily access XML data without the need to learn a structured query language and to study possibly complex data schemas. Existing work has addr...
Ziyang Liu, Yi Chen
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WSDM
2010
ACM
197views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
15 years 10 months ago
Beyond DCG: user behavior as a predictor of a successful search
Web search engines are traditionally evaluated in terms of the relevance of web pages to individual queries. However, relevance of web pages does not tell the complete picture, si...
Ahmed Hassan, Rosie Jones, Kristina Lisa Klinkner
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SIGIR
2005
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Predicting query difficulty on the web by learning visual clues
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...
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IPM
2007
137views more  IPM 2007»
15 years 3 months ago
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...