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WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Discovering users' specific geo intention in web search
Discovering users' specific and implicit geographic intention in web search can greatly help satisfy users' information needs. We build a geo intent analysis system that...
Xing Yi, Hema Raghavan, Chris Leggetter
WEBDB
2007
Springer
85views Database» more  WEBDB 2007»
16 years 7 days ago
Corroborating Answers from Multiple Web Sources
The Internet has changed the way people look for information. Users now expect the answers to their questions to be available through a simple web search. Web search engines are i...
Minji Wu, Amélie Marian
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
From x-rays to silly putty via Uranus: serendipity and its role in web search
The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
Jaime Teevan, Paul André, Susan T. Dumais
WSDM
2012
ACM
285views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
14 years 1 months ago
Probabilistic models for personalizing web search
We present a new approach for personalizing Web search results to a specific user. Ranking functions for Web search engines are typically trained by machine learning algorithms u...
David Sontag, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Benn...
WWW
2006
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Selective hypertext induced topic search
We address the problem of answering broad-topic queries on the World Wide Web. We present a link based analysis algorithm SelHITS, which is an improvement over Kleinberg's HI...
Amit C. Awekar, Pabitra Mitra, Jaewoo Kang