Characterizing browsing strategies in the World-Wide Web
Proceedings of the Third International World-Wide Web conference on Technology, tools and applications
Automatically organizing bookmarks per contents
Proceedings of the fifth international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks and ISDN systems
Information archiving with bookmarks: personal Web space construction and organization
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A bookmarking service for organizing and sharing URLs
Selected papers from the sixth international conference on World Wide Web
Data mining: practical machine learning tools and techniques with Java implementations
Data mining: practical machine learning tools and techniques with Java implementations
Analysis of a very large web search engine query log
ACM SIGIR Forum
SearchPad: explicit capture of search context to support Web search
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
Hunter gatherer: interaction support for the creation and management of within-web-page collections
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on World Wide Web
Combining evidence for automatic web session identification
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Issues of context in information retrieval
ACM SIGIR Forum
Query chains: learning to rank from implicit feedback
Proceedings of the eleventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery in data mining
A field study characterizing Web-based information-seeking tasks
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information re-retrieval: repeat queries in Yahoo's logs
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Predictive user click models based on click-through history
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management
Learning about the world through long-term query logs
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
The query-flow graph: model and applications
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Matching task profiles and user needs in personalized web search
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
Query suggestions using query-flow graphs
Proceedings of the 2009 workshop on Web Search Click Data
Classifying search queries using the Web as a source of knowledge
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Computing semantic relatedness using Wikipedia-based explicit semantic analysis
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
From "Dango" to "Japanese Cakes": Query Reformulation Models and Patterns
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
Interactive information seeking via selective application of contextual knowledge
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
The new frontier of web search technology: seven challenges
Search computing
Search computing
Query reformulation mining: models, patterns, and applications
Information Retrieval
Modeling and analysis of cross-session search tasks
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
Behavior-driven clustering of queries into topics
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Evaluating the effectiveness of search task trails
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web
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
On extracting session data from activity logs
Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Systems and Storage Conference
The wisdom of advertisers: mining subgoals via query clustering
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Extracting interesting association rules from toolbar data
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Characterizing and supporting cross-device search tasks
Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
A vlHMM approach to context-aware search
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Modeling and predicting the task-by-task behavior of search engine users
Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Open Research Areas in Information Retrieval
Discovering tasks from search engine query logs
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Examining users' knowledge change in the task completion process
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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Addressing user's information needs has been one of the main goals of Web search engines since their early days. In some cases, users cannot see their needs immediately answered by search results, simply because these needs are too complex and involve multiple aspects that are not covered by a single Web or search results page. This typically happens when users investigate a certain topic in domains such as education, travel or health, which often require collecting facts and information from many pages. We refer to this type of activities as "research missions". These research missions account for 10% of users' sessions and more than 25% of all query volume, as verified by a manual analysis that was conducted by Yahoo! editors. We demonstrate in this paper that such missions can be automatically identified on-the-fly, as the user interacts with the search engine, through careful runtime analysis of query flows and query sessions. The on-the-fly automatic identification of research missions has been implemented in Search Pad, a novel Yahoo! application that was launched in 2009, and that we present in this paper. Search Pad helps users keeping trace of results they have consulted. Its novelty however is that unlike previous notes taking products, it is automatically triggered only when the system decides, with a fair level of confidence, that the user is undertaking a research mission and thus is in the right context for gathering notes. Beyond the Search Pad specific application, we believe that changing the level of granularity of query modeling, from an isolated query to a list of queries pertaining to the same research missions, so as to better reflect a certain type of information needs, can be beneficial in a number of other Web search applications. Session-awareness is growing and it is likely to play, in the near future, a fundamental role in many on-line tasks: this paper presents a first step on this path.