This paper reports on and discusses a set of user experiments using the TREC 2003 Web interactive track protocol. The focus is on comparing humans and machine algorithms in terms ...
Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Mu...
We describe a method for predicting query difficulty in a precision-oriented web search task. Our approach uses visual features from retrieved surrogate document representations (...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, David A. Grossm...
In this paper we analyze the Web coverage of three search engines, Google, Yahoo and MSN. We conducted a 15 month study collecting 15,770 Web content or information pages linked f...
Yang Sok Kim, Byeong Ho Kang, Paul Compton, Hirosh...
Site maps are frequently provided on Web sites as a navigation support for Web users. The automatic generation of site maps is a complex task since the structure of the data, sema...
Web search engines face an extremely heterogeneous user population from web novices to highly skilled experts. Currently, the search strategies of the experienced web searchers ar...