Understanding query ambiguity in web search remains an important open problem. In this paper we reexamine query ambiguity by analyzing the result clickthrough data. Previously pro...
The Internet has changed the way people look for information. Users now expect the answers to their questions to be available through a simple web search. Web search engines are i...
Web semantic access in specific domains calls for specialized search engines with enhanced semantic querying and indexing capacities, which pertain both to information retrieval (...
Evaluating user preferences of web search results is crucial for search engine development, deployment, and maintenance. We present a real-world study of modeling the behavior of ...
Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan T. Dumais, Rob...
Recent experiments and analysis suggest that there are about 800 million publicly-indexable Web pages. However, unlike books in a traditional library, Web pages continue to change...