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How do users grow up along with search engines?
2013
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management - CIKM '13
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With a stronger reliance on search engines in our daily life, a large number of studies have investigated user behavior characteristics in Web search. ...
The findings have implications for how Web search engines should better support users' information seeking process by tackling complex search tasks and complicated query formulations. ...
to a Web page. (3) Long-term users do have the custom of issuing question-like queries, and compared with ordinary users, much more percentage of them is likely to use question-like queries to express ...
doi:10.1145/2505515.2505650
dblp:conf/cikm/LiuLZM13
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A comparative study of web based and IR based question answering systems
2012
International Journal of Advances in Computing and Information Technology
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Comparative Study of Web based & IR based QA System A comparative study of Web based and IR based QA system is given in table 4.1. ...
Section 2 describes Web Based QA system, Section 3 discusses IR based QA system and Section 4 gives a comparative study of these QA systems. ...
doi:10.6088/ijacit.12.10024
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Comparing the diversity of information by word-of-mouth vs. web spread
2016
Europhysics letters
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(WEB). ...
The simulative results are further supported by an online experiment which finds that people searching information through a search engine end up with far more homogenous opinions as compared to those ...
The experimental results strongly support the model simulation since all three questions included a lower variability of information while using the WEB as compared to the WOM. ...
doi:10.1209/0295-5075/114/58003
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Answering Comparative Questions with Arguments
2020
Datenbank-Spektrum
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Interestingly, major search engines answer some comparative questions pretty well while for others, they just show the "standard" ten blue links. ...
Since nowadays more and more people also "talk" to their devices, such comparative questions are also part of the query stream that major search engines receive. ...
Acknowledgements This work was supported by the DFG through the project "ACQuA: Answering Comparative Questions with Arguments" (grants BI 1544/7-1 and HA 5851/2-1) as part of the priority program "RATIO ...
doi:10.1007/s13222-020-00346-8
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SIGIR 2016 Workshop WebQA II
2016
Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval - SIGIR '16
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QA compared to traditional web search. ...
Other questions submitted on the Web can be short and ambiguous (such as Web queries to a search engine). ...
doi:10.1145/2911451.2917767
dblp:conf/sigir/MoschittiMNACS16
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Exploring the Web and Semantic Knowledge-Driven Automatic Question Answering System
2018
International Journal of Engineering & Technology
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The web and Semantic Knowledge Driven Question Answering System (QAS) used to determine the candidate answer for the posted query in the NLP tools. ...
The growth of information retrieval from the web sources are increased day by day, proving an effective and efficient way to the user for retrieving relevant documents from the web is an art. ...
Introduction The searching of information on the web is increased day by day as the growth of web searching is rapid the demand of information retrieval with efficient and effective and easiest way is ...
doi:10.14419/ijet.v7i3.6.16007
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Detecting Intent of Web Queries Using Questions and Answers in CQA Corpus
2011
2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
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Detecting intent in Web search activity is important task for finding relevant Web information. ...
Showing the variety of candidate intents behind a query could help users choose correct intent expressions and improve the Web search. ...
When compared to keyword-based searching, the intents behind the questions in CQA corpus are clearer. ...
doi:10.1109/wi-iat.2011.41
dblp:conf/webi/YoonJT11
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A study of medical and health queries to web search engines
2004
Health Information and Libraries Journal
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We report results: (i) comparing samples of 10 000 web queries taken randomly from 1.2 million query logs from the Allthe-Web.com and Excite.com commercial web search engines in 2001 for medical or health ...
queries, (ii) comparing the 2001 findings from Excite and Allthe-Web.com users with results from a previous analysis of medical and health related queries from the Excite Web search engine for 1997 and ...
As stated previously, Pew 15 does not compare health searching with other topics. Our findings also suggest an on-going shift in web users' search topics. ...
doi:10.1111/j.1471-1842.2004.00481.x
pmid:15023208
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"Do Users Do What They Think They Do?"– A Comparative Study of User Perceived and Actual Information Searching Behaviour in the National Electronic Library of Infection
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2010
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
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logs), although some important differences were identified; (iii) both browsing and searching were equally used to answer specific questions and (iv) the preferred route for browsing for data on the NeLI ...
We use this national portal, as test-bed for investigating our research questions. ...
For each user we compared their opinion on whether (a) they had found the answer to their question and (b) how in their view they navigated the site to get the answers and compared that to the web log ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-11745-9_15
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Readability and Understandability of Snippets Recommended by General-purpose Web Search Engines: a Comparative Study
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2021
arXiv
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Developers often search for reusable code snippets on general-purpose web search engines like Google, Yahoo! or Microsoft Bing. ...
The better-ranked code snippet is not necessarily more readable or understandable than a lower-ranked code snippet for all general-purpose web search engines. ...
The general-purpose web search engines could be compared to specific code search engines, e.g., StackOverflow. ...
arXiv:2110.07087v1
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Information search in the laboratory and on the Web: With or without an experimenter
2003
Behavoir research methods, instruments & computers
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Both studies yielded comparable results between the laboratory and the Web groups. ...
To recapitulate, our experiments reveal that there is no simple answer to the question of whether or not a Web study is acceptable for information search tasks. ...
doi:10.3758/bf03202545
pmid:12834077
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Analysis of User Behavior for Web Search Success Using Eye Tracker Data
2012
2012 Eighth Latin American Web Congress
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We have conducted an Eye-Tracking study to analyze user behavior when searching the web and looking for specific information on results and content pages. ...
The goal is to obtain more precise information about the search strategy of the user. Which characteristics make the difference between successful and unsuccessful searches? ...
Query Questions We designed three questions for the web search experiment. The idea was to create general questions in a non specialized topic. ...
doi:10.1109/la-web.2012.18
dblp:conf/la-web/NettletonG12
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Characteristics of question format web queries: an exploratory study
2002
Information Processing & Management
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ABSTRACT Web queries in question format are becoming a common element of a user's interaction with Web search engines. ...
Web search services such as Ask Jeeves a publicly accessible question and answer (Q&A) search engine request users to enter question format queries. ...
Using data from the Ask Jeeves and Excite Web search engines we can compare the structure of any queries in the form of questions. ...
doi:10.1016/s0306-4573(01)00042-5
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Bringing Why-QA to Web Search
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2011
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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We investigated to what extent users could be satisfied by a web search engine for answering causal questions. We used an assessment environment in which a web search interface was simulated. ...
If we count an intended click on a result as a vote for relevance, then 74.4% of the why-questions gets at least one relevant answer in the top-10. 10% of why-queries asked to web search engines are not ...
The implementation of such a service is only possible if the answers to why-questions can be found by web search engines. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20161-5_48
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Questions vs. Queries in Informational Search Tasks
2015
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web - WWW '15 Companion
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Recent studies have found that Web search engines are observing an increase in the fraction of queries phrased as natural language. ...
In this work, we show that while 10.3% of queries issued to a search engine have direct question intent, only 3.2% of them are formulated as natural language questions. ...
Question-answering has also been compared against information retrieval (IR) methods [6] , but using specialized question answering systems and not generic Web search engines as we study here. ...
doi:10.1145/2740908.2742769
dblp:conf/www/WhiteRY15
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