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WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Detecting online commercial intention (OCI)
Understanding goals and preferences behind a user's online activities can greatly help information providers, such as search engine and E-Commerce web sites, to personalize c...
Honghua (Kathy) Dai, Lingzhi Zhao, Zaiqing Nie, Ji...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
On the feasibility of multi-site web search engines
Web search engines are often implemented as centralized systems. Designing and implementing a Web search engine in a distributed environment is a challenging engineering task that...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio J...
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
14 years 6 days ago
Evaluating the effectiveness of term frequency histograms for supporting interactive web search tasks
Throughout many of the different types of Web searches people perform, the primary tasks are to first craft a query that effectively captures their information needs, and then eva...
Orland Hoeber, Xue Dong Yang
CHI
2001
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
On the road and on the Web?: comprehension of synthetic and human speech while driving
In this study 24 participants drove a simulator while listening to three types of messages in both synthesized speech and recorded human speech. The messages consisted of short na...
Jennifer Lai, Karen Cheng, Paul Green, Omer Tsimho...
WSDM
2012
ACM
285views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
12 years 5 months ago
Probabilistic models for personalizing web search
We present a new approach for personalizing Web search results to a specific user. Ranking functions for Web search engines are typically trained by machine learning algorithms u...
David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Benn...