Toward whole-session relevance: Exploring intrinsic diversity in Web search

SIGIR 2013 - Proceedings of the 36th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 463-472

  Raman, Karthik ^a   Bennett, Paul N ^b   Collins Thompson, Kevyn ^b  

^a School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Proactive search; Search session analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TASK; DIVERSITY; INTRINSIC DIVERSITY; MULTIPLE INTERACTIONS; MULTIPLE QUERIES; MULTIPLE USER; PROACTIVE SEARCH; SEARCH SESSIONS;

OPTIMIZATION; RESEARCH; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84883101020     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2484028.2484089     Document Type: Conference Paper

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