Direct answers for search queries in the long tail

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 237-246

  Bernstein, Michael S ^a   Teevan, Jaime ^b   Dumais, Susan ^b   Liebling, Dan ^b   Horvitz, Eric ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Query log analysis; Search user interfaces

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; CROWDSOURCING; IN-LINE; INFORMATION NEED; KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS; LOG MINING; LONG TAIL; QUERY LOGS; SEARCH QUALITY; SEARCH QUERIES; SEARCH USER INTERFACE; SUBJECTIVE RATING; USER STUDY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SEARCH ENGINES; USER INTERFACES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84862066480     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2207710     Document Type: Conference Paper

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