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CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Predicting short-term interests using activity-based search context
A query considered in isolation offers limited information about a searcher's intent. Query context that considers pre-query activity (e.g., previous queries and page visits)...
Ryen W. White, Paul N. Bennett, Susan T. Dumais
ACSC
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
An investigation on a community's web search variability
Users’ past search behaviour provides a rich context that an information retrieval system can use to tailor its search results to suit an individual’s or a community’s infor...
Mingfang Wu, Andrew Turpin, Justin Zobel
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
The role of documents vs. queries in extracting class attributes from text
Challenging the implicit reliance on document collections, this paper discusses the pros and cons of using query logs rather than document collections, as self-contained sources o...
Marius Pasca, Benjamin Van Durme, Nikesh Garera
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 9 days ago
Personalize web search results with user's location
We build a probabilistic model to identify implicit local intent queries, and leverage user’s physical location to improve Web search results for these queries. Evaluation on co...
Yumao Lu, Fuchun Peng, Xing Wei, Benoît Dumo...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Multiple approaches to analysing query diversity
In this paper we examine user queries with respect to diversity: providing a mix of results across different interpretations. Using two query log analysis techniques (click entrop...
Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson, Murad Abouammoh, Serg...