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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 9 months ago
Relative effect of spam and irrelevant documents on user interaction with search engines
Meaningful evaluation of web search must take account of spam. Here we conduct a user experiment to investigate whether satisfaction with search engine result pages as a whole is ...
Timothy Jones, David Hawking, Paul Thomas, Ramesh ...
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
FACTO: a fact lookup engine based on web tables
Recently answers for fact lookup queries have appeared on major search engines. For example, for the query {Barack Obama date of birth} Google directly shows “4 August 1961” a...
Xiaoxin Yin, Wenzhao Tan, Chao Liu
SIGIR
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Estimating advertisability of tail queries for sponsored search
Sponsored search is one of the major sources of revenue for search engines on the World Wide Web. It has been observed that while showing ads for every query maximizes shortterm r...
Sandeep Pandey, Kunal Punera, Marcus Fontoura, Van...
JCP
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
Towards a Web Platform for Collaborative Learning Practice, Evaluation and Dissemination
—Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) tool adoption is slow and challenging when compared to the dissemination of simpler content delivery systems. The lack of techni...
Jacques Lonchamp
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
Cognos: crowdsourcing search for topic experts in microblogs
Finding topic experts on microblogging sites with millions of users, such as Twitter, is a hard and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose and investigate a new methodolog...
Saptarshi Ghosh, Naveen Kumar Sharma, Fabrí...