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PRICAI
2004
Springer
14 years 21 days ago
The Happy Searcher: Challenges in Web Information Retrieval
Search has arguably become the dominant paradigm for finding information on the World Wide Web. In order to build a successful search engine, there are a number of challenges that ...
Mehran Sahami, Vibhu O. Mittal, Shumeet Baluja, He...
APPROX
2005
Springer
103views Algorithms» more  APPROX 2005»
14 years 27 days ago
Where's the Winner? Max-Finding and Sorting with Metric Costs
Traditionally, a fundamental assumption in evaluating the performance of algorithms for sorting and selection has been that comparing any two elements costs one unit (of time, work...
Anupam Gupta, Amit Kumar
SIGIR
1999
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
SCAN: Designing and Evaluating User Interfaces to Support Retrieval From Speech Archives
Previous examinations of search in textual archives have assumed that users first retrieve a ranked set of documents relevant to their query, and then visually scan through these ...
Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg, John Choi, Dona...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Disambiguating Web appearances of people in a social network
Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...
Ron Bekkerman, Andrew McCallum
ETRA
2010
ACM
169views Biometrics» more  ETRA 2010»
14 years 2 months ago
Eye and pointer coordination in search and selection tasks
Selecting a graphical item by pointing with a computer mouse is a ubiquitous task in many graphical user interfaces. Several techniques have been suggested to facilitate this task...
Hans-Joachim Bieg, Lewis L. Chuang, Roland W. Flem...