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CISSE
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Challenges in Web Information Retrieval
Monika Arora, Uma Kanjilal, Dinesh Varshney
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Towards a model of understanding social search
Search engine researchers typically depict search as the solitary activity of an individual searcher. In contrast, results from our critical-incident survey of 150 users on Amazon...
Brynn M. Evans, Ed H. Chi
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Finding the right facts in the crowd: factoid question answering over social media
Community Question Answering has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for a wide range of information needs. For example, to find out an obscure piece of trivia, it is now ...
Jiang Bian, Yandong Liu, Eugene Agichtein, Hongyua...
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, ...
WWW
2011
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Finding our way on the web: exploring the role of waypoints in search interaction
Information needs are rarely satisfied directly on search engine result pages. Searchers usually need to click through to search results (landing pages) and follow search trails b...
Ryen W. White, Adish Singla