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JAIR
2011
13 years 3 months ago
2011
Many web-search queries serve as the beginning of an exploration of an unknown space of information, rather than looking for a specific web page. To answer such queries effectiv...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2008
Springer
Learning-to-rank algorithms, which can automatically adapt ranking functions in web search, require a large volume of training data. A traditional way of generating training examp...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 8 months ago
2011
Springer
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...
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2005
ACM
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 ...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
2008
ACM
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...