Web search query logs contain traces of users’ search modifications. One strategy users employ is deleting terms, presumably to obtain greater coverage. It is useful to model a...
Identifying and tracking new information on the Web is important in sociology, marketing, and survey research, since new trends might be apparent in the new information. Such chan...
Thesauri, that list the most salient semantic relations between words have mostly been compiled manually. Therefore, the inclusion of an entry depends on the subjective decision o...
Many information resources on the web are relevant primarily to limited geographical communities. For instance, web sites containing information on restaurants, theaters, and apar...
Models of learning and performing by exploration assume that the semantic distance between task descriptions and screen labels controls in part the usersÕ search strategies. Neve...