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CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Adapting to the Shifting Intent of Search Queries
Search engines today present results that are often oblivious to recent shifts in intent. For example, the meaning of the query `independence day' shifts in early July to a U...
Umar Syed, Aleksandrs Slivkins, Nina Mishra
COLCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Collaborative Search and User Privacy: How Can They Be Reconciled?
Abstract. Collaborative search engines (CSE) let users pool their resources and share their experiences when seeking information on the web. However, when shared, search terms and ...
Thorben Burghardt, Erik Buchmann, Klemens Böh...
IPM
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
How are we searching the World Wide Web? A comparison of nine search engine transaction logs
The Web and especially major Web search engines are essential tools in the quest to locate online information for many people. This paper reports results from research that examin...
Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A framework for determining necessary query set sizes to evaluate web search effectiveness
We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Ophir Frieder, ...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Investigation of partial query proximity in web search
Proximity of query terms in a document is an important criterion in IR. However, no investigation has been made to determine the most useful term sequences for which proximity sho...
Jing Bai, Yi Chang, Hang Cui, Zhaohui Zheng, Gordo...