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SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
ViewSer: enabling large-scale remote user studies of web search examination and interaction
Web search behaviour studies, including eye-tracking studies of search result examination, have resulted in numerous insights to improve search result quality and presentation. Ye...
Dmitry Lagun, Eugene Agichtein
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Optimizing scoring functions and indexes for proximity search in type-annotated corpora
We introduce a new, powerful class of text proximity queries: find an instance of a given "answer type" (person, place, distance) near "selector" tokens matchi...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Kriti Puniyani, Sujatha Das
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Measuring semantic similarity between words using web search engines
Semantic similarity measures play important roles in information retrieval and Natural Language Processing. Previous work in semantic web-related applications such as community mi...
Danushka Bollegala, Yutaka Matsuo, Mitsuru Ishizuk...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Characterizing and predicting search engine switching behavior
Search engine switching describes the voluntarily transition from one Web search engine to another. In this paper we present a study of search engine switching behavior that combi...
Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais
ICDE
2009
IEEE
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14 years 10 months ago
Top-k Exploration of Query Candidates for Efficient Keyword Search on Graph-Shaped (RDF) Data
Keyword queries enjoy widespread usage as they represent an intuitive way of specifying information needs. Recently, answering keyword queries on graph-structured data has emerged ...
Thanh Tran, Haofen Wang, Sebastian Rudolph, Philip...