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IADIS
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Understanding Expert Search Strategies for Designing User-Friendly Search Interfaces
Web search engines face an extremely heterogeneous user population from web novices to highly skilled experts. Currently, the search strategies of the experienced web searchers ar...
Anne Aula, Mika Käki
WSDM
2010
ACM
210views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2010»
14 years 6 months ago
Towards Recency Ranking in Web Search
In web search, recency ranking refers to ranking documents by relevance which takes freshness into account. In this paper, we propose a retrieval system which automatically detect...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Zhaohui Zheng, Gilad Mishne,...
ATAL
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
QueryTracker: An Agent for Tracking Persistent Information Needs
Most people have long term information interests. Current Web search engines satisfy immediate information needs. Specific sites support tracking of long term interests. We prese...
Gabriel Somlo, Adele E. Howe
WWW
2001
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Learning search engine specific query transformations for question answering
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence, Luis Gravano
SPIRE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Last-Resort Semantic Cache for Web Queries
We propose a method to evaluate queries using a last-resort semantic cache in a distributed Web search engine. The cache stores a group of frequent queries and for each of these qu...
Flavio Ferrarotti, Mauricio Marín, Marcelo ...