A semi-supervised approach to modeling web search satisfaction

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 275-284

  Hassan, Ahmed ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

search engine evaluation; semi supervised learning; user behavior models

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE PROCESS; LABELED AND UNLABELED DATA; LABELED DATA; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; SEARCH LOGS; SEMI-SUPERVISED; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING; UNLABELED DATA; USER BEHAVIORS; WEB SEARCHES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RESEARCH; SEARCH ENGINES; SUPERVISED LEARNING; WEBSITES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84866625880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2348283.2348323     Document Type: Conference Paper

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