One challenge for relevance ranking in Web search is underspecified queries. For such queries, top-ranked documents may contain information irrelevant to the search goal of the us...
Clickthrough rate and cost-per-click are known to be among the factors that impact the rank of an ad shown on a search result page. Hence, search engines can benefit from estimat...
Azin Ashkan, Charles L. A. Clarke, Eugene Agichtei...
Understanding how people interact with search engines is important in improving search quality. Web search engines typically analyze queries and clicked results, but these actions...
People often find useful content on the web via social media. However, it is difficult to manually aggregate the information and recommendations embedded in a torrent of social ...
This paper describes an investigation in progress into the searching behaviour of end-users and how it is affected by interface design. The project focused on qualitative data gat...
Victoria Manglano, Micheline Beaulieu, Stephen E. ...