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DEBU
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Keyword Search
The prevalence of free text search in web search engines has inspired recent interest in keyword search on relational databases. Whereas relational queries formally specify matchi...
William Webber
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Finding relevant documents using top ranking sentences: an evaluation of two alternative schemes
In this paper we present an evaluation of techniques that are designed to encourage web searchers to interact more with the results of a web search. Two specific techniques are ex...
Ryen White, Ian Ruthven, Joemon M. Jose
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Automated evaluation of search engine performance via implicit user feedback
Measuring the information retrieval effectiveness of Web search engines can be expensive if human relevance judgments are required to evaluate search results. Using implicit user ...
Himanshu Sharma, Bernard J. Jansen
NIPS
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Evaluating Search Engines by Modeling the Relationship Between Relevance and Clicks
We propose a model that leverages the millions of clicks received by web search engines to predict document relevance. This allows the comparison of ranking functions when clicks ...
Ben Carterette, Rosie Jones
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 25 days ago
Ready to buy or just browsing?: detecting web searcher goals from interaction data
An improved understanding of the relationship between search intent, result quality, and searcher behavior is crucial for improving the effectiveness of web search. While recent p...
Qi Guo, Eugene Agichtein