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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
Personalizing web search results by reading level
Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. W...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Analysis of topic dynamics in web search
We report on a study of topic dynamics for pages visited by a sample of people using MSN Search. We examine the predictive accuracies of probabilistic models of topic transitions ...
Xuehua Shen, Susan T. Dumais, Eric Horvitz
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
How medical expertise influences web search interaction
Domain expertise can have an important influence on how people search. In this poster we present findings from a log-based study into how medical domain experts search the Web for...
Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jaime Teevan
EMNLP
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Context Comparison of Bursty Events in Web Search and Online Media
In this paper, we conducted a systematic comparative analysis of language in different contexts of bursty topics, including web search, news media, blogging, and social bookmarkin...
Yunliang Jiang, Cindy Xide Lin, Qiaozhu Mei
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Analysis of geographic queries in a search engine log
Geography is becoming increasingly important in web search. Search engines can often return better results to users by analyzing features such as user location or geographic terms...
Qingqing Gan, Josh Attenberg, Alexander Markowetz,...