It is now widely recognized that user interactions with search results can provide substantial relevance information on the documents displayed in the search results. In this pape...
Shihao Ji, Ke Zhou, Ciya Liao, Zhaohui Zheng, Gui-...
This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang
Generating alternative queries, also known as query suggestion, has long been proved useful to help a user explore and express his information need. In many scenarios, such sugges...
Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...
Web search engines consistently collect information about users interaction with the system: they record the query they issued, the URL of presented and selected documents along w...