We report on a study that was undertaken to better identify users' goals behind web search queries by using click through data. Based on user logs which contain over 80 millio...
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...
Short assigned question-answering style tasks are often used as a probe to understand how users do search. While such assigned tasks are simple to test and are effective at elicit...
An important application of semantic web technology is recognizing human-defined concepts in text. Query transformation is a strategy often used in search engines to derive querie...
Edgar Meij, Marc Bron, Laura Hollink, Bouke Huurni...
: The Web is huge, unstructured and diverse in quality, which makes searching for information difficult. In practice, few of the documents returned by a search engine are valuable ...