Struggling or exploring? Disambiguating long search sessions

WSDM 2014 - Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 53-62

  Hassan, Ahmed ^a   White, Ryen W ^a   Dumais, Susan T ^a   Wang, Yi Min ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

exploratory search; exploring vs. struggling

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

DIRECTED SEARCHES; EXPLORATORY SEARCH; EXPLORING VS. STRUGGLING; MULTIPLE QUERIES; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; SEARCH BEHAVIOR; SEARCH SESSIONS; SEARCH SUCCESS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84906875573     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556195.2556221     Document Type: Conference Paper

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