Modeling and analysis of cross-session search tasks

SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5-14

  Kotov, Alexander ^a   Bennett, Paul N ^b   White, Ryen W ^b   Dumais, Susan T ^b   Teevan, Jaime ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross session search tasks; Machine learning; User behavior

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; LEARNING SYSTEMS; QUERY PROCESSING;

CLASSIFICATION FRAMEWORK; COMPLEX INFORMATION; DIFFERENT GRANULARITIES; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; MODEL AND ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE SEARCH; SEARCH TASKS; USER BEHAVIORS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 80052111163     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2009916.2009922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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