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News trends and web search query of HIV/AIDS in Hong Kong. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
The HIV epidemic in Hong Kong has worsened in recent years, with major contributions from high-risk subgroup of men who have sex with men (MSM). Internet use is prevalent among the majority of the local population, where they sought health information ...
Alice P Y Chiu, Qianying Lin, Daihai He
doaj   +3 more sources

Using web search query data to monitor dengue epidemics: a new model for neglected tropical disease surveillance.

open access: goldPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2011
BackgroundA variety of obstacles including bureaucracy and lack of resources have interfered with timely detection and reporting of dengue cases in many endemic countries.
Emily H Chan   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Proxy-Terms Based Query Obfuscation Technique for Private Web Search [PDF]

open access: goldIEEE Access, 2022
Search engines store users’ queries in a query log for performing personalized information retrieval. However, query logs cause privacy concerns and reveal a lot of information about individuals if used against them.
Shariq Bashir   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Efficient Query Processing for Scalable Web Search [PDF]

open access: yesFoundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval, 2018
Search engines are exceptionally important tools for accessing information in today’s world. In satisfying the information needs of millions of users, the effectiveness (the quality of the search results) and the efficiency (the speed at which the ...
N. Tonellotto, Craig Macdonald, I. Ounis
semanticscholar   +5 more sources

Semantic tagging of web search queries [PDF]

open access: bronzeProceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP: Volume 2 - ACL-IJCNLP '09, 2009
We present a novel approach to parse web search queries for the purpose of automatic tagging of the queries. We will define a set of probabilistic context-free rules, which generates bags (i.e. multi-sets) of words. Using this new type of rule in combination with the traditional probabilistic phrase structure rules, we define a hybrid grammar, which ...
Mehdi Manshadi, Li Xiao
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Nowcasting Mobile Games Ranking Using Web Search Query Data

open access: yesInternational Journal of Computer Games Technology, 2016
In recent years, the Internet has become embedded into the purchasing decision of consumers. The purpose of this paper is to study whether the Internet behavior of users correlates with their actual behavior in computer games market.
Yoones A. Sekhavat
doaj   +2 more sources

Changes in web search query behavior of English-to-Chinese translation trainees

open access: goldAmpersand, 2023
This article delves into the evolution of web search query behavior among translation trainees over a semester, using a repeated measures design. While prior research in Translation Studies has predominantly focused on information-seeking patterns and ...
Vanessa Enríquez Raído, Yuxing Cai
doaj   +2 more sources

CoSQA: 20,000+ Web Queries for Code Search and Question Answering [PDF]

open access: greenAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021
Finding codes given natural language query is beneficial to the productivity of software developers. Future progress towards better semantic matching between query and code requires richer supervised training resources. To remedy this, we introduce CoSQA
Junjie Huang   +7 more
openalex   +3 more sources

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BOOLEAN WEB SEARCH QUERY - Estimating success from characteristics

open access: hybridInternational Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, 2005
Popular web search engines use Boolean queries as their main interface for users to search their information needs. The paper presents results a user survey employing volunteer web searchers to determine the effectiveness of the Boolean queries in ...
Sunanda Patro, Vishv Malhotra
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Domain-specific queries and Web search personalization: some investigations [PDF]

open access: yesElectronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2015
Major search engines deploy personalized Web results to enhance users' experience, by showing them data supposed to be relevant to their interests. Even if this process may bring benefits to users while browsing, it also raises concerns on the selection ...
Van Tien Hoang   +4 more
doaj   +8 more sources

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