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SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 18 days ago
Search, interrupted: understanding and predicting search task continuation
Many important search tasks require multiple search sessions to complete. Tasks such as travel planning, large purchases, or job searches can span hours, days, or even weeks. Inev...
Eugene Agichtein, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, ...
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Empirical studies in strategies for Arabic retrieval
This work evaluates a few search strategies for Arabic monolingual and cross-lingual retrieval, using the TREC Arabic corpus as the test-bed. The release by NIST in 2001 of an Ara...
Jinxi Xu, Alexander Fraser, Ralph M. Weischedel
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Computers and iphones and mobile phones, oh my!: a logs-based comparison of search users on different devices
We present a logs-based comparison of search patterns across three platforms: computers, iPhones and conventional mobile phones. Our goal is to understand how mobile search users ...
Maryam Kamvar, Melanie Kellar, Rajan Patel, Ya Xu
JISBD
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Databases and Natural Language Interfaces
A Natural Language Interface for Databases allows users of multimedia kiosks to formulate natural language questions. User questions are first translated into a logic language and ...
Porfírio P. Filipe, Nuno J. Mamede
SIGMOD
2010
ACM
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13 years 8 months ago
Keyword search across databases and documents
Given the continuous growth of databases and the abundance of diverse files in modern IT environments, there is a pressing need to integrate keyword search on heterogeneous inform...
Carlos Garcia-Alvarado, Carlos Ordonez