Search, interrupted: Understanding and predicting search task continuation

SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 315-324

  Agichtein, Eugene ^a   White, Ryen W ^b   Dumais, Susan T ^b   Bennet, Paul N ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

personalization; search behavior; search session analysis

Indexed keywords

JOB SEARCH; MULTIPLE SEARCH; PERSONALIZATIONS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PREDICTION ALGORITHMS; QUERY LOGS; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; SEARCH RESULTS; SEARCH SESSIONS; SEARCH TASKS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; TRAVEL PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; ONLINE SEARCHING;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84866599212     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2348283.2348328     Document Type: Conference Paper

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