Analysis of a very large web search engine query log
ACM SIGIR Forum
Cumulated gain-based evaluation of IR techniques
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Evaluating implicit measures to improve web search
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Query chains: learning to rank from implicit feedback
Proceedings of the eleventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery in data mining
Automatic new topic identification using multiple linear regression
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
User performance versus precision measures for simple search tasks
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Improving web search ranking by incorporating user behavior information
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Click data as implicit relevance feedback in web search
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
How well does result relevance predict session satisfaction?
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Characterizing typical and atypical user sessions in clickstreams
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
How does clickthrough data reflect retrieval quality?
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
The query-flow graph: model and applications
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Beyond the session timeout: automatic hierarchical segmentation of search topics in query logs
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
A dynamic bayesian network click model for web search ranking
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Good abandonment in mobile and PC internet search
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Evaluating web search using task completion time
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Discounted cumulated gain based evaluation of multiple-query IR sessions
ECIR'08 Proceedings of the IR research, 30th European conference on Advances in information retrieval
Mining advertiser-specific user behavior using adfactors
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Predicting searcher frustration
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Helping identify when users find useful documents: examination of query reformulation intervals
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
Predicting short-term interests using activity-based search context
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
A cost-continuity model for web search
MDAI'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Modeling decisions for artificial intelligence
Predicting query performance using query, result, and user interaction features
RIAO '10 Adaptivity, Personalization and Fusion of Heterogeneous Information
Sparse hidden-dynamics conditional random fields for user intent understanding
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
Addressing people's information needs directly in a web search result page
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
Supporting synchronous social q&a throughout the question lifecycle
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on World wide web
Modeling and analysis of cross-session search tasks
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Why searchers switch: understanding and predicting engine switching rationales
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Find it if you can: a game for modeling different types of web search success using interaction data
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Predicting web searcher satisfaction with existing community-based answers
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Detecting success in mobile search from interaction
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Scalable distributed inference of dynamic user interests for behavioral targeting
Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
What and how children search on the web
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Effects of search success on search engine re-use
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
No search result left behind: branching behavior with browser tabs
Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Generating suggestions for queries in the long tail with an inverted index
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Evaluating the effectiveness of search task trails
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web
Answering math queries with search engines
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Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web
Context-Aware personalized search based on user and resource profiles in folksonomies
APWeb'12 Proceedings of the 14th Asia-Pacific international conference on Web Technologies and Applications
The impact of images on user clicks in product search
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining
A semi-supervised approach to modeling web search satisfaction
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Search, interrupted: understanding and predicting search task continuation
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
When web search fails, searchers become askers: understanding the transition
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Leaving so soon?: understanding and predicting web search abandonment rationales
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Predicting web search success with fine-grained interaction data
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Session-based query performance prediction
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Playing by the rules: mining query associations to predict search performance
Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Absence time and user engagement: evaluating ranking functions
Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Intuitive Topic Discovery by Incorporating Word-Pair's Connection Into LDA
WI-IAT '12 Proceedings of the The 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
Intent-Based browse activity segmentation
ECIR'13 Proceedings of the 35th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Vertical selection in the information domain of children
Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Predicting query reformulation type from user behavior
Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Toward self-correcting search engines: using underperforming queries to improve search
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Search engine switching detection based on user personal preferences and behavior patterns
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Mining touch interaction data on mobile devices to predict web search result relevance
Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Towards a robust modeling of temporal interest change patterns for behavioral targeting
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
Enhancing personalized search by mining and modeling task behavior
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
A vlHMM approach to context-aware search
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Adaptive visualization for exploratory information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Personalized models of search satisfaction
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
Beyond clicks: query reformulation as a predictor of search satisfaction
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
Mining search and browse logs for web search: A Survey
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Choices in batch information retrieval evaluation
Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Document Computing Symposium
Analysis of Search and Browsing Behavior of Young Users on the Web
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Strategy in action: analyzing online search behavior bymining search strategies
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Modeling dwell time to predict click-level satisfaction
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Struggling or exploring?: disambiguating long search sessions
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
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Web search engines are traditionally evaluated in terms of the relevance of web pages to individual queries. However, relevance of web pages does not tell the complete picture, since an individual query may represent only a piece of the user's information need and users may have different information needs underlying the same queries. In this work, we address the problem of predicting user search goal success by modeling user behavior. We show empirically that user behavior alone can give an accurate picture of the success of the user's web search goals, without considering the relevance of the documents displayed. In fact, our experiments show that models using user behavior are more predictive of goal success than those using document relevance. We build novel sequence models incorporating time distributions for this task and our experiments show that the sequence and time distribution models are more accurate than static models based on user behavior, or predictions based on document relevance.