Evaluating user preferences of web search results is crucial for search engine development, deployment, and maintenance. We present a real-world study of modeling the behavior of ...
Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan T. Dumais, Rob...
The rapid increase of web complexity and size makes web searched results far from satisfaction in many cases due to a huge amount of information returned by search engines. How to...
Given a user keyword query, current Web search engines return a list of individual Web pages ranked by their "goodness" with respect to the query. Thus, the basic unit fo...
Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li
The abundance of content on the web and the lack of quality control require more refined approaches in analyzing online information. In this paper, we propose evaluating the extent...
Finding a set of web pages relevant to a user’s information goal is difficult due to the enormous size of the Internet. Search engines are able to find a set of pages that mat...