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JASIS
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Relevance criteria identified by health information users during Web searches
This study focused on the relevance judgments made by health information users using the Web. Health information users were conceptualized as motivated information users concerned...
Abe Crystal, Jane Greenberg
RIAO
2004
13 years 9 months ago
Monitoring User-System Performance in Interactive Retrieval Tasks
Monitoring user-system performance in interactive search is a challenging task. Traditional measures of retrieval evaluation, based on recall and precision, are not of any use in ...
Liudmila V. Boldareva, Arjen P. de Vries, Djoerd H...
KDD
2006
ACM
143views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
14 years 8 months ago
Mining long-term search history to improve search accuracy
Long-term search history contains rich information about a user's search preferences. In this paper, we study statistical language modeling based methods to mine contextual i...
Bin Tan, Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai
JODS
2006
206views Data Mining» more  JODS 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Emergent Semantics in Knowledge Sifter: An Evolutionary Search Agent Based on Semantic Web Services
This paper addresses the various facets of emergent semantics in content retrieval systems such as Knowledge Sifter, an architecture and system based on the use of specialized agen...
Larry Kerschberg, Hanjo Jeong, Wooju Kim
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Using the current browsing context to improve search relevance
In this paper, we investigate the problem of improving the relevance of a Web search engine by adapting it to the dynamic needs of the user. We examine a representative case of su...
Mandar Rahurkar, Silviu Cucerzan