Query abandonment by search engine users is generally considered to be a negative signal. In this paper, we explore the concept of good abandonment. We define a good abandonment ...
People often seek information by asking other people even when they have access to vast reservoirs of information such as the Internet and libraries. This is because people are gr...
The abundance of content on the web and the lack of quality control require more refined approaches in analyzing online information. In this paper, we propose evaluating the extent...
For health care related research studies the medical records of patients may need to be retrieved from multiple sites with different regulations on the disclosure of health inform...
Xiaoyun He, Jaideep Vaidya, Basit Shafiq, Nabil R....
The User-over-Ranking hypothesis states that rather the user herself than a web search engine’s ranking algorithm can help to improve retrieval performance. The means are longer ...