Interpreting user inactivity on search results

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5993 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 100-113

  Stamou, Sofia ^a,b   Efthimiadis, Efthimis N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b IONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Interactive IR; Queries without clickthrough; Search abandonment; Task oriented search; User study

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

CLICK THROUGH; QUERIES WITHOUT CLICKTHROUGH; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; RETRIEVED DOCUMENTS; SEARCH ABANDONMENT; TASK-ORIENTED SEARCHES; USER ACTIVITY; USER STUDY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77952315459     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12275-0_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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