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SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 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
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Search engines and how students think they work
To investigate the nature of people’s understandings for how search engines work, we collected data from 232 undergraduate and graduate students. Students were asked to “draw ...
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, David G. Hendry
CN
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
Query routing for Web search engines: architecture and experiments
General-purpose search engines such as AltaVista and Lycos are notorious for returning irrelevant results in response to user queries. Consequently, thousands of specialized, topi...
Atsushi Sugiura, Oren Etzioni
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A multilingual usage consultation tool based on internet searching: more than a search engine, less than QA
We present a usage consultation tool, based on Internet searching, for language learners. When a user enters a string of words for which he wants to find usages, the system sends ...
Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Hiroshi Nakagawa
PRICAI
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Towards a Next-Generation Search Engine
As more information becomes available on the World Wide Web, it has become an acute problem to provide effective search tools for information access. Previous generations of search...
Qiang Yang, Hai-Feng Wang, Ji-Rong Wen, Gao Zhang,...