The quality of the search experience has been an enduring problem for the World Wide Web. One of the well-known difficulties is the tendency of users to use short, under-specified...
Ahu Sieg, Bamshad Mobasher, Steven L. Lytinen, Rob...
In this paper, we propose a method for identifying and ranking possible categories of any user query based on the meanings and common usages of the terms and phrases within the que...
Reza Taghizadeh Hemayati, Weiyi Meng, Clement T. Y...
Understanding query reformulation patterns is a key step towards next generation web search engines: it can help improving users’ web-search experience by predicting their inten...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Se...
This study investigated a relatively unexamined query type, queries composed of URLs. The extent, variation and user click-through behavior was examined to determine the intent be...
In this paper, we proposed a unified strategy to combine query log and search results for query suggestion. In this way, we leverage both the users' search intentions for pop...