We present an automated program analysis, called Reach, to compute program inputs that cause evaluation of explicitly-marked target expressions. Reach has a range of applications ...
Query abandonment by search engine users is generally considered to be a negative signal. In this paper, we explore the concept of good abandonment. We define a good abandonment ...
Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. W...
Search engines use content and link information to crawl, index, retrieve, and rank Web pages. The correlations between similarity measures based on these cues and on semantic ass...
Log data constitutes a relevant aspect in the evaluation process of multilingual search services. Activity logs allow to study the usage of search engines and to better adapt them ...
Thomas Mandl, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Julia Maria...