Evaluation of IR systems has always been difficult because of the need for manually assessed relevance judgments. The advent of large editor-driven taxonomies on the web opens the...
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury...
In this paper, we report results of an investigation into the factors influencing the selection of sponsored links by e-commerce Web searchers. In this research, 56 participants e...
As the search engine arms-race continues, search engines are constantly looking for ways to improve the manner in which they respond to user queries. Given the vagueness of Web sea...
Jill Freyne, Barry Smyth, Maurice Coyle, Evelyn Ba...
The search task and the system both affect the demand on cognitive resources during information search. In some situations, the demands may become too high for a person. This arti...
In this paper we present how resources and tools developed within the Human Language Technology Group at the University of Belgrade can be used for tuning queries before submittin...