Understanding user goals in Web search

Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference Proceedings, WWW2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 13-19

  Rose, Daniel E ^a   Levinson, Danny ^a  

^a YAHOO INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Query classification; User behavior; User goals; Web search

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENTS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES;

HUMAN FACTORS; QUERY CLASSIFICATION; SEARCH PROCESS; USER BEHAVIOR; USER GOALS; WEB SEARCH;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 19944362539     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/988672.988675     Document Type: Conference Paper

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