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CHI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Adaptive information search: age-dependent interactions between cognitive profiles and strategies
Previous research has shown that older adults performed worse in web search tasks, and attributed poorer performance to a decline in their cognitive abilities. We conducted a stud...
Jessie Chin, Wai-Tat Fu, Thomas George Kannampalli...
WEBI
2007
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
Measuring Semantic Similarity between Named Entities by Searching the Web Directory
The importance of named entities in information retrieval and knowledge management has recently brought interest in characterizing semantic relationships between entities. In this...
Jiahui Liu, Larry Birnbaum
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Resolving Person Names in Web People Search
Disambiguating person names in a set of documents (such as a set of web pages returned in response to a person name) is a key task for the presentation of results and the automatic...
Krisztian Balog, Leif Azzopardi, Maarten de Rijke
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Interactive effects of age and interface differences on search strategies and performance
We present results from an experiment that studied the information search behavior of younger and older adults in a medical decision-making task. To study how different combinatio...
Jessie Chin, Wai-Tat Fu
ISCI
2010
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13 years 5 months ago
Clustering web people search results using fuzzy ants
Person name queries often bring up web pages that correspond to individuals sharing the same name. The Web People Search (WePS) task consists of organizing search results for ambi...
Els Lefever, Timur Fayruzov, Véronique Host...