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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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Evaluating the accuracy of implicit feedback from clicks and query reformulations in Web search [PDF]
This article examines the reliability of implicit feedback generated from clickthrough data and query reformulations in World Wide Web (WWW) search. Analyzing the users' decision process using eyetracking and comparing implicit feedback against manual ...
Thorsten Joachims+5 more
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Analysis of a very large web search engine query log [PDF]
In this paper we present an analysis of an AltaVista Search Engine query log consisting of approximately 1 billion entries for search requests over a period of six weeks.
Craig Silverstein+3 more
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Reconciling faceted search and query languages for the Semantic Web [PDF]
Faceted search and querying are two well-known paradigms to search the Semantic Web. Querying languages, such as SPARQL, offer expressive means for searching RDF data sets, but they are difcult to use. Query assistants help users to write well-formed queries, but they do not prevent empty results.
Sébastien Ferré, A. M. Hermann
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Organizing query completions for web search [PDF]
All state-of-the-art web search engines implement an auto-completion mechanism - an assistive technology enabling users to effectively formulate their search queries by predicting the next characters or words that they are likely to type. Query completions (or suggestions) are typically mined from past user interactions with the search engine, e.g ...
Alpa Jain, Gilad Mishne
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An IR-based evaluation framework for web search query segmentation [PDF]
This paper presents the first evaluation framework for Web search query segmentation based directly on IR performance. In the past, segmentation strategies were mainly validated against manual annotations.
Rishiraj Saha Roy+3 more
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Web Search of Fashion Items with Multimodal Querying [PDF]
In this paper, we introduce a novel multimodal fashion search paradigm where e-commerce data is searched with a multimodal query composed of both an image and text. In this setting, the query image shows a fashion product that the user likes and the query text allows to change certain product attributes to fit the product to the user's desire ...
Laenen, Katrien+2 more
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Understanding Help-Seeking Behavior of Students Using LLMs vs. Web Search for Writing SQL Queries [PDF]
Growth in the use of large language models (LLMs) in programming education is altering how students write SQL queries. Traditionally, students relied heavily on web search for coding assistance, but this has shifted with the adoption of LLMs like ChatGPT.
Harsh Kumar+5 more
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Date‐restricted queries in web search engines [PDF]
Search engines usually offer a date‐restricted search on their advanced search pages. But determining the actual update of a web page is not without problems. Conducts a study testing date‐restricted queries on the search engines Google, Teoma and Yahoo! Finds that these searches fail to work properly in the engines examined.
Dirk Lewandowski
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Querying the Semantic Web with Corese Search Engine [PDF]
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Olivier Corby+2 more
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