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CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
No clicks, no problem: using cursor movements to understand and improve search
Understanding how people interact with search engines is important in improving search quality. Web search engines typically analyze queries and clicked results, but these actions...
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
109views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Extreme visualization: squeezing a billion records into a million pixels
Database searches are usually performed with query languages and form fill in templates, with results displayed in tabular lists. However, excitement is building around dynamic qu...
Ben Shneiderman
PODS
1999
ACM
133views Database» more  PODS 1999»
14 years 1 days ago
Processing and Optimization of Multiway Spatial Joins Using R-Trees
One of the most important types of query processing in spatial databases and geographic information systems is the spatial join, an operation that selects, from two relations, all...
Dimitris Papadias, Nikos Mamoulis, Yannis Theodori...
KDD
2009
ACM
248views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 9 days ago
PSkip: estimating relevance ranking quality from web search clickthrough data
1 In this article, we report our efforts in mining the information encoded as clickthrough data in the server logs to evaluate and monitor the relevance ranking quality of a commer...
Kuansan Wang, Toby Walker, Zijian Zheng
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis