Search Engines today often return a large volume of results with possibly a few relevant results. The notion of relevance is subjective and depends on the user and the context of ...
Information retrieval systems (e.g., web search engines) are critical for overcoming information overload. A major deficiency of existing retrieval systems is that they generally...
Interleaving experiments are an attractive methodology for evaluating retrieval functions through implicit feedback. Designed as a blind and unbiased test for eliciting a preferen...
Yisong Yue, Yue Gao, Olivier Chapelle, Ya Zhang, T...
In this paper we report our research on building WebSail { an intelligent web search engine that is able to perform real-time adaptive learning. WebSail learns from the user'...
Zhixiang Chen, Xiannong Meng, Binhai Zhu, Richard ...
We investigate how users interact with the results page of a WWW search engine using eye-tracking. The goal is to gain into how users browse the presented abstracts and how they s...