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News trends and web search query of HIV/AIDS in Hong Kong. [PDF]
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
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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
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Proxy-Terms Based Query Obfuscation Technique for Private Web Search [PDF]
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
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Efficient Query Processing for Scalable Web Search [PDF]
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
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Semantic tagging of web search queries [PDF]
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
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
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Changes in web search query behavior of English-to-Chinese translation trainees
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
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CoSQA: 20,000+ Web Queries for Code Search and Question Answering [PDF]
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
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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BOOLEAN WEB SEARCH QUERY - Estimating success from characteristics
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]
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
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