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Exploring the use of labels to shortcut search trails

Published: 19 July 2010 Publication History

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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.

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SIGIR '10: Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
July 2010
944 pages
ISBN:9781450301534
DOI:10.1145/1835449
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  1. anchor text
  2. click graph
  3. labels
  4. social bookmarks
  5. trails

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  • (2014)Struggling or exploring?Proceedings of the 7th ACM international conference on Web search and data mining10.1145/2556195.2556221(53-62)Online publication date: 24-Feb-2014
  • (2013)From machu_picchu to "rafting the urubamba river"Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining10.1145/2433396.2433433(275-284)Online publication date: 4-Feb-2013
  • (2012)Adaptation of the concept hierarchy model with search logs for query recommendation on intranetsProceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval10.1145/2348283.2348288(5-14)Online publication date: 12-Aug-2012
  • (2011)Enriching query flow graphs with click informationProceedings of the 7th Asia conference on Information Retrieval Technology10.1007/978-3-642-25631-8_18(193-204)Online publication date: 18-Dec-2011

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