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SIGMOD
2006
ACM
232views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
To search or to crawl?: towards a query optimizer for text-centric tasks
Text is ubiquitous and, not surprisingly, many important applications rely on textual data for a variety of tasks. As a notable example, information extraction applications derive...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Eugene Agichtein, Pranay ...
WSDM
2012
ACM
258views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2012»
14 years 1 months ago
Large-scale analysis of individual and task differences in search result page examination strategies
Understanding the impact of individual and task differences on search result page examination strategies is important in developing improved search engines. Characterizing these e...
Georg Buscher, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jef...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Query log analysis in the context of information retrieval for children
In this paper we analyze queries and sessions intended to satisfy children’s information needs using a large-scale query log. The aim of this analysis is twofold: i) To identify...
Sergio Duarte Torres, Djoerd Hiemstra, Pavel Serdy...
CIKM
2011
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Personalizing web search results by reading level
Traditionally, search engines have ignored the reading difficulty of documents and the reading proficiency of users in computing a document ranking. This is one reason why Web se...
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Paul N. Bennett, Ryen W. W...
KDD
2009
ACM
248views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
PSkip: estimating relevance ranking quality from web search clickthrough data
1 In this article, we report our efforts in mining the information encoded as clickthrough data in the server logs to evaluate and monitor the relevance ranking quality of a commer...
Kuansan Wang, Toby Walker, Zijian Zheng