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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Understanding the relationship between searchers' queries and information goals
We describe results from Web search log studies aimed at elucidating user behaviors associated with queries and destination URLs that appear with different frequencies. We note th...
Doug Downey, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling, ...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
What queries are likely to recur in web search?
We study the recurrence dynamics of queries in Web search by analysing a large real-world query log dataset. We find that query frequency is more useful in predicting collective ...
Dell Zhang, Jinsong Lu
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 25 days ago
A segment-level confidence measure for Spoken Document Retrieval
This paper presents a semantic confidence measure that aims to predict the relevance of automatic transcripts for a task of Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR). The proposed predicti...
Grégory Senay, Georges Linares, Benjamin Le...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Click-through prediction for news queries
A growing trend in commercial search engines is the display of specialized content such as news, products, etc. interleaved with web search results. Ideally, this content should b...
Arnd Christian König, Michael Gamon, Qiang Wu
ECIR
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
The Combination and Evaluation of Query Performance Prediction Methods
Abstract. In this paper, we examine a number of newly applied methods for combining pre-retrieval query performance predictors in order to obtain a better prediction of the query...
Claudia Hauff, Leif Azzopardi, Djoerd Hiemstra