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SIGDOC
2006
ACM
16 years 24 days ago
Why don't people read the manual?
Few users of computer applications seek help from the documentation. This paper reports the results of an empirical study of why this is so and examines how, in real work, users s...
David G. Novick, Karen Ward
SIGDOC
2006
ACM
16 years 24 days ago
What users say they want in documentation
While earlier work provided a partial view of users’ preferences about manuals, for most users in most work contexts the important question remains open: What do users want in d...
David G. Novick, Karen Ward
SIGECOM
2006
ACM
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16 years 24 days ago
Empirical mechanism design: methods, with application to a supply-chain scenario
Our proposed methods employ learning and search techniques to estimate outcome features of interest as a function of mechanism parameter settings. We illustrate our approach with ...
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Christopher Kiekintveld, Mic...
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SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 24 days ago
Formal models for expert finding in enterprise corpora
Searching an organization’s document repositories for experts provides a cost effective solution for the task of expert finding. We present two general strategies to expert se...
Krisztian Balog, Leif Azzopardi, Maarten de Rijke
SIGIR
2006
ACM
16 years 24 days ago
Improving web search ranking by incorporating user behavior information
We show that incorporating user behavior data can significantly improve ordering of top results in real web search setting. We examine alternatives for incorporating feedback into...
Eugene Agichtein, Eric Brill, Susan T. Dumais