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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...