Modeling decision points in user search behavior

Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium, IIiX 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 239-242

  Thomas, Paul ^a   Moffat, Alistair ^b   Bailey, Peter ^c   Scholer, Falk ^d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

^d RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

evaluation; retrieval experiment; system measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907013233     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2637002.2637032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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