The vocabulary problem in human-system communication
Communications of the ACM
The paraphrase search assistant: terminological feedback for iterative information seeking
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Effective site finding using link anchor information
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Mining anchor text for query refinement
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Query chains: learning to rank from implicit feedback
Proceedings of the eleventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery in data mining
Investigating behavioral variability in web search
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Optimizing web search using social annotations
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Studying the use of popular destinations to enhance web search interaction
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Improving search engines using human computation games
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Enriching query flow graphs with click information
AIRS'11 Proceedings of the 7th Asia conference on Information Retrieval Technology
Adaptation of the concept hierarchy model with search logs for query recommendation on intranets
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Proceedings of the sixth 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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Search trails comprising queries and Web page views are created as searchers engage in information-seeking activity online. During known-item search (where the objective may be to locate a target Web page), searchers may waste valuable time repeatedly reformulating queries as they attempt to locate an elusive page. Trail shortcuts help users bypass unnecessary queries and get them to their desired destination faster. In this poster we present a comparative oracle study of techniques to shortcut sub-optimal search trails using labels derived from social bookmarking, anchor text, query logs, and a human-computation game. We show that labels can help users reach target pages efficiently, that the label sources perform differently, and that shortcuts are potentially most useful when the target is challenging to find.