Models of Searching and Browsing: Languages, Studies, and Application
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Summary
The formulation, construction, and evaluation of predictive models of human information seeking from a large dataset of Web search activities are described, including an exploration of the properties of users, queries, and search sessions that are most predictive of future behavior.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2007-01-06
- Cited by
- 121
- References
- 22
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Keywords
Computer science, Focus (optics), Machine learning, Information retrieval, Artificial intelligence
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- Enabling Semantic Analysis of User Browsing Patterns in the Web of Data
- On extracting session data from activity logs
- How medical expertise influences web search interaction
- Beyond the session timeout: automatic hierarchical segmentation of search topics in query logs
- Human wayfinding in information networks
- Semantic Formalization of Cross-Site User Browsing Behavior
- Query session detection as a cascade
- Untangling Result List Refinement and Ranking Quality: a Framework for Evaluation and Prediction
- SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL
- Modeling information-seeker satisfaction in community question answering
- Predicting searcher frustration
- Find it if you can: a game for modeling different types of web search success using interaction data
- Ready to buy or just browsing?: detecting web searcher goals from interaction data
- Determining the Time Window Threshold to Identify User Sessions of Stakeholders of a Commercial Bank Portal
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