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CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: serendipity and its role in web search
The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
Jaime Teevan, Paul André, Susan T. Dumais
SIGIR
2006
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Learning user interaction models for predicting web search result preferences
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...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Generating hierarchical summaries for web searches
Hierarchies provide a means of organizing, summarizing and accessing information. We describe a method for automatically generating hierarchies from small collections of text, and...
Dawn J. Lawrie, W. Bruce Croft
ECIR
2003
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Improving the Evaluation of Web Search Systems
Linkage analysis as an aid to web search has been assumed to be of significant benefit and we know that it is being implemented by many major Search Engines. Why then have few TREC...
Cathal Gurrin, Alan F. Smeaton
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Search result re-ranking based on gap between search queries and social tags
Both search engine click-through log and social annotation have been utilized as user feedback for search result re-ranking. However, to our best knowledge, no previous study has ...
Jun Yan, Ning Liu, Elaine Qing Chang, Lei Ji, Zhen...