Studying trailfinding algorithms for enhanced web search

SIGIR 2010 Proceedings - 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 443-450

  Singla, Adish ^a   White, Ryen W ^b   Huang, Jeff ^c  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Best trail selection; Search trails; Trailfinding

Indexed keywords

BEST-TRAIL SELECTION; QUERY TYPES; SEARCH TASKS; SEARCH TRAILS; TOOLBARS; TOPIC DIVERSITY; TRAIL INFORMATION; TRAILFINDING; WEB INFORMATION; WEB PAGE; WEB SEARCHES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NAVIGATION; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77956051291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1835449.1835524     Document Type: Conference Paper

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