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WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Generating query substitutions
We introduce the notion of query substitution, that is, generating a new query to replace a user's original search query. Our technique uses modifications based on typical su...
Rosie Jones, Benjamin Rey, Omid Madani, Wiley Grei...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Brand awareness and the evaluation of search results
We investigate the effect of search engine brand (i.e., the identifying name or logo that distinguishes a product from its competitors) on evaluation of system performance. This r...
Bernard J. Jansen, Mimi Zhang, Ying Zhang
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Algorithmic mediation for collaborative exploratory search
We describe a new approach to information retrieval: algorithmic mediation for intentional, synchronous collaborative exploratory search. Using our system, two or more users with ...
Jeremy Pickens, Gene Golovchinsky, Chirag Shah, Pe...
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Re-ranking search results using query logs
This work addresses two common problems in search, frequently occurring with underspecified user queries: the top-ranked results for such queries may not contain documents relevan...
Ziming Zhuang, Silviu Cucerzan
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Searching with context
Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...
Reiner Kraft, Chi-Chao Chang, Farzin Maghoul, Ravi...