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WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Discovering users' specific geo intention in web search
Discovering users' specific and implicit geographic intention in web search can greatly help satisfy users' information needs. We build a geo intent analysis system that...
Xing Yi, Hema Raghavan, Chris Leggetter
WEBDB
2007
Springer
85views Database» more  WEBDB 2007»
14 years 25 days ago
Corroborating Answers from Multiple Web Sources
The Internet has changed the way people look for information. Users now expect the answers to their questions to be available through a simple web search. Web search engines are i...
Minji Wu, Amélie Marian
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: serendipity and its role in web search
The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
Jaime Teevan, Paul André, Susan T. Dumais
WSDM
2012
ACM
285views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
12 years 2 months ago
Probabilistic models for personalizing web search
We present a new approach for personalizing Web search results to a specific user. Ranking functions for Web search engines are typically trained by machine learning algorithms u...
David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Benn...
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Selective hypertext induced topic search
We address the problem of answering broad-topic queries on the World Wide Web. We present a link based analysis algorithm SelHITS, which is an improvement over Kleinberg's HI...
Amit C. Awekar, Pabitra Mitra, Jaewoo Kang