Communications of the ACM
ACM SIGIR Forum
The effects of domain knowledge on search tactic formulation
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Understanding user goals in web search
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Accurately interpreting clickthrough data as implicit feedback
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Personalizing search via automated analysis of interests and activities
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Personalized Search Based on User Search Histories
WI '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
A language model approach to keyphrase extraction
MWE '03 Proceedings of the ACL 2003 workshop on Multiword expressions: analysis, acquisition and treatment - Volume 18
Exploratory search: from finding to understanding
Communications of the ACM - Supporting exploratory search
A comparison of implicit and explicit links for web page classification
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
A variable-length category-based n-gram language model
ICASSP '96 Proceedings of the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1996. on Conference Proceedings., 1996 IEEE International Conference - Volume 01
Beyond the session timeout: automatic hierarchical segmentation of search topics in query logs
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Characterizing the influence of domain expertise on web search behavior
Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
Classifying and Characterizing Query Intent
ECIR '09 Proceedings of the 31th European Conference on IR Research on Advances in Information Retrieval
What do exploratory searchers look at in a faceted search interface?
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Impact of search results on user queries
Proceedings of the eleventh international workshop on Web information and data management
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Dynamic adaptation strategies for long-term and short-term user profile to personalize search
APWeb/WAIM'07 Proceedings of the joint 9th Asia-Pacific web and 8th international conference on web-age information management conference on Advances in data and web management
Assessing the scenic route: measuring the value of search trails in web logs
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The ECIR 2010 large scale hierarchical classification workshop
ACM SIGIR Forum
Predicting users' domain knowledge from search behaviors
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Personalizing web search results by reading level
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
The intention behind web queries
SPIRE'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval
Characterizing web content, user interests, and search behavior by reading level and topic
Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
To each his own: personalized content selection based on text comprehensibility
Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Direct answers for search queries in the long tail
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Modeling the impact of short- and long-term behavior on search personalization
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Supporting children's web search in school environments
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
Personalizing atypical web search sessions
Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Examining users' knowledge change in the task completion process
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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The Internet is the largest source of information in the world. Search engines help people navigate the huge space of available data in order to acquire new skills and knowledge. In this paper, we present an in-depth analysis of sessions in which people explicitly search for new knowledge on the Web based on the log files of a popular search engine. We investigate within-session and cross-session developments of expertise, focusing on how the language and search behavior of a user on a topic evolves over time. In this way, we identify those sessions and page visits that appear to significantly boost the learning process. Our experiments demonstrate a strong connection between clicks and several metrics related to expertise. Based on models of the user and their specific context, we present a method capable of automatically predicting, with good accuracy, which clicks will lead to enhanced learning. Our findings provide insight into how search engines might better help users learn as they search.