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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
On iterative intelligent medical search
Searching for medical information on the Web has become highly popular, but it remains a challenging task because searchers are often uncertain about their exact medical situation...
Gang Luo, Chunqiang Tang
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Search, interrupted: understanding and predicting search task continuation
Many important search tasks require multiple search sessions to complete. Tasks such as travel planning, large purchases, or job searches can span hours, days, or even weeks. Inev...
Eugene Agichtein, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, ...
GIS
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Mapping geographic coverage of the web
In this paper, we describe a methodology to estimate the geographic coverage of the web without the need for secondary knowledge or complex geo-tagging. This is achieved by random...
Robert Pasley, Paul Clough, Ross S. Purves, Floria...
KDD
2008
ACM
115views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
Topical query decomposition
We introduce the problem of query decomposition, where we are given a query and a document retrieval system, and we want to produce a small set of queries whose union of resulting...
Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, ...
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
125views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 8 months ago
Identifying meaningful return information for XML keyword search
Keyword search enables web users to easily access XML data without the need to learn a structured query language and to study possibly complex data schemas. Existing work has addr...
Ziyang Liu, Yi Chen