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SEMCO
2008
IEEE
16 years 16 days ago
Exploiting Semantic Query Context to Improve Search Ranking
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...
Ziming Zhuang, Silviu Cucerzan
WEBI
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Estimating Ad Clickthrough Rate through Query Intent Analysis
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...
CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
No clicks, no problem: using cursor movements to understand and improve search
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...
Jeff Huang, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais
CSCW
2012
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Friends, romans, countrymen: lend me your URLs. using social chatter to personalize web search
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 ...
Abhinay Nagpal, Sudheendra Hangal, Rifat Reza Joye...
ECIR
1998
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Evaluation of Interfaces for IRS: Modelling End-User Searching Behaviour
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. ...