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MM
2004
ACM
125views Multimedia» more  MM 2004»
14 years 2 months ago
The association engine: a free associative digital improviser
In this article, we present the Association Engine, a multimedia installation that explores the space of language and exposes connections between words. It externalizes meaningful...
Sara Owsley, David A. Shamma, Kristian J. Hammond,...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Understanding user goals in web search
Previous work on understanding user web search behavior has focused on how people search and what they are searching for, but not why they are searching. In this paper, we describ...
Daniel E. Rose, Danny Levinson
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
CoSearch: a system for co-located collaborative web search
Web search is often viewed as a solitary task; however, there are many situations in which groups of people gather around a single computer to jointly search for information onlin...
Saleema Amershi, Meredith Ringel Morris
WSDM
2012
ACM
285views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
12 years 4 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...
CG
2006
Springer
14 years 15 days ago
Automated Chess Tutor
While recently the strength of chess-playing programs has grown immensely, their capability of explaining in human understandable terms why some moves are good or bad has enjoyed l...
Aleksander Sadikov, Martin Mozina, Matej Guid, Jan...