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CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
The Altruistic Searcher
—Recently researchers have argued that the prevailing view of Web search, as a solitary activity, is flawed: that, in reality, Web search can be an inherently collaborative task...
Barry Smyth, Maurice Coyle, Peter Briggs
WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence, Luis Gravano
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Efficient query subscription processing for prospective search engines
Current web search engines are retrospective in that they limit users to searches against already existing pages. Prospective search engines, on the other hand, allow users to upl...
Utku Irmak, Svilen Mihaylov, Torsten Suel, Samrat ...
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Automated evaluation of search engine performance via implicit user feedback
Measuring the information retrieval effectiveness of Web search engines can be expensive if human relevance judgments are required to evaluate search results. Using implicit user ...
Himanshu Sharma, Bernard J. Jansen
ITCC
2003
IEEE
14 years 29 days ago
The Effects of Search Engines and Query Operators on Top Ranked Results
We examine whether the use of query operators changes the documents retrieved by three popular Web search engines. One hundred queries containing query operators were selected fro...
Bernard J. Jansen, Caroline M. Eastman