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PVLDB
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Embellishing Text Search Queries To Protect User Privacy
Users of text search engines are increasingly wary that their activities may disclose confidential information about their business or personal profiles. It would be desirable f...
HweeHwa Pang, Xuhua Ding, Xiaokui Xiao
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval: Techniques and Evaluation
Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval refers to systems that support multiple users searching together at the same time in order to satisfy a shared information need. To ...
Colum Foley, Alan F. Smeaton
RIAO
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Contextual Search Using Ontology-Based User Profiles
Search engines, generally, return results without any regard for the concepts in which the user is interested. In this paper, we present our approach to personalizing search engin...
Vishnu Challam, Susan Gauch, Aravind Chandramouli
AAAI
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Evaluating Preference-based Search Tools: A Tale of Two Approaches
People frequently use the world-wide web to find their most preferred item among a large range of options. We call this task preference-based search. The most common tool for pref...
Paolo Viappiani, Boi Faltings, Pearl Pu
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Eye-tracking analysis of user behavior in WWW search
We investigate how users interact with the results page of a WWW search engine using eye-tracking. The goal is to gain into how users browse the presented abstracts and how they s...
Laura A. Granka, Thorsten Joachims, Geri Gay