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- research-articleJanuary 2022
Correlating pre-search and in-search context to predict search intent for exploratory search
International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining (IJBIDM), Volume 20, Issue 3Pages 274–298https://doi.org/10.1504/ijbidm.2022.122154Modern information systems are expected to respond to a wide variety of information needs from users with diverse goals. The topical dimension ('what' the user is searching for) of these information needs is well studied; however, the intent dimension ('...
- demonstrationOctober 2018
SearchBot: Supporting Voice Conversations with Proactive Search
- Salvatore Andolina,
- Valeria Orso,
- Hendrik Schneider,
- Khalil Klouche,
- Tuukka Ruotsalo,
- Luciano Gamberini,
- Giulio Jacucci
CSCW '18 Companion: Companion of the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social ComputingPages 9–12https://doi.org/10.1145/3272973.3272990Searching during conversations and social interactions is becoming increasingly common. Although searching could be helpful for solving arguments, building common ground, and reinforcing mutual assumptions, it can also cause interactional problems. ...
- research-articleJuly 2018
Proactive Information Retrieval by Capturing Search Intent from Primary Task Context
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS), Volume 8, Issue 3Article No.: 20, Pages 1–25https://doi.org/10.1145/3150975A significant fraction of information searches are motivated by the user’s primary task. An ideal search engine would be able to use information captured from the primary task to proactively retrieve useful information. Previous work has shown that many ...
- short-paperJune 2018
Procrastination is the Thief of Time: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Proactive Search Systems
SIGIR '18: The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information RetrievalPages 1157–1160https://doi.org/10.1145/3209978.3210114Users of current search systems actively interact with the system to complete their search task. This can encompass formulating and reformulating a series queries expressing evolving of different information needs. We believe that the next generation of ...
- research-articleJune 2018
Investigating Proactive Search Support in Conversations
- Salvatore Andolina,
- Valeria Orso,
- Hendrik Schneider,
- Khalil Klouche,
- Tuukka Ruotsalo,
- Luciano Gamberini,
- Giulio Jacucci
DIS '18: Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems ConferencePages 1295–1307https://doi.org/10.1145/3196709.3196734Conversations among people involve solving disputes, building common ground, and reinforce mutual beliefs and assumptions. Conversations often require external information that can support these human activities. In this paper, we study how a spoken ...
- research-articleOctober 2014
Understanding Intrinsic Diversity in Web Search: Improving Whole-Session Relevance
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Volume 32, Issue 4Article No.: 20, Pages 1–45https://doi.org/10.1145/2629553Current research on Web search has focused on optimizing and evaluating single queries. However, a significant fraction of user queries are part of more complex tasks [Jones and Klinkner 2008] which span multiple queries across one or more search ...
- research-articleJuly 2013
Toward whole-session relevance: exploring intrinsic diversity in web search
SIGIR '13: Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrievalPages 463–472https://doi.org/10.1145/2484028.2484089Current research on web search has focused on optimizing and evaluating single queries. However, a significant fraction of user queries are part of more complex tasks [20] which span multiple queries across one or more search sessions [26,24]. An ideal ...