Understanding the intent underlying user queries may help personalize search results and improve user satisfaction. In this paper, we develop a methodology for using ad clickthroug...
Azin Ashkan, Charles L. A. Clarke, Eugene Agichtei...
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...
This paper presents a detailed branch characterization of an Oracle based commercial on-line transaction processing workload, Oracle Database Benchmark (ODB), running on an IA32 p...
When search engine users have trouble finding information, they may become frustrated, possibly resulting in a bad experience (even if they are ultimately successful). In a user ...
People routinely rely on Internet search engines to support their use of interactive systems: they issue queries to learn how to accomplish tasks, troubleshoot problems, and other...