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SIGIR
2012
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Improving searcher models using mouse cursor activity
Web search components such as ranking and query suggestions analyze the user data provided in query and click logs. While this data is easy to collect and provides information abo...
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Georg Buscher, Kuansan ...
JSW
2008
116views more  JSW 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
A Task-oriented Approach to Search Engine Usability Studies
Usability is a multi-dimensional characteristic of a computer system. This paper focuses on usability as a measurement of interaction between the user and the system. The research ...
Isak Taksa, Amanda Spink, Robert Goldberg
HRI
2011
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Managing social constraints on recharge behaviour for robot companions using memory
In this paper, we present an approach to monitor human activities such as entry, exit and break times of people in a workplace environment. The companion robot then learns the use...
Amol A. Deshmukh, Mei Yii Lim, Michael Kriegel, Ru...
KDD
2006
ACM
143views Data Mining» more  KDD 2006»
16 years 7 months ago
Mining long-term search history to improve search accuracy
Long-term search history contains rich information about a user's search preferences. In this paper, we study statistical language modeling based methods to mine contextual i...
Bin Tan, Xuehua Shen, ChengXiang Zhai
ICTIR
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Robust Word Similarity Estimation Using Perturbation Kernels
We introduce perturbation kernels, a new class of similarity measure for information retrieval that casts word similarity in terms of multi-task learning. Perturbation kernels mode...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson