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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Search experience"”.
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Using an ontology to improve the web search experience
The search terms that a user passes to a search engine are often ambiguous, referring to homonyms. The results in these cases are a mixture of links to documents that contain different meanings of the search terms. Current search engines provide suggested query completions in a dropdown list. …
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Digital Searching: A Grounded Theory Study on the Modern Search Experience
… study explores US adults' modern information search process as they pursue information through digital search user interfaces and tools. To study the current search process, a systematic grounded theory methodology and two data collection methods, a think-aloud protocol and semi-structured …
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Leveraging user interaction to improve search experience with difficult and exploratory queries
The query-based search paradigm is based on the assumption that the searchers are able to come up with the effective differentiator terms to make their queries specific and precise. In reality, however, a large number of queries are problematic return either too many or no relevant documents in the …
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Exploring the impact of conversational strategies on user search experience in goal-oriented tasks in a voice-only domain
Conversational search has recently become established as a new information search paradigm. Increasing numbers of people are using smart speakers and virtual personal assistants to access information online. Given the substantial increase in the usage of devices that feature conversational agents, …
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MEDLINE Metric: A method to assess medical students' MEDLINE search effectiveness
… management skills, including the ability to search the MEDLINE database. There has been no published validated method available to use for assessing medical students' MEDLINE information retrieval skills.This research proposes and evaluates a method, designed as the MEDLINE Metric, for …
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Consumer Search and Price Discrimination: Theory and Evidence From the United States Long-Distance Market
… choice set restrictions based on costly search. I find that cross firm price elasticities for high volume consumers are 87% higher than for low volume consumers based on their lifetime search experience. In addition, it is estimated that, conditional on consumers being fully informed …
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Learning to reformulate long queries
Long search queries are useful because they let the users specify their search criteria in more detail. However, the user often receives poor results in response to the long queries from today's Information Retrieval systems. For the document to be returned as a relevant result, the system requires …
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The nursing home search and selection process: gender and relationship issues
This study examined how the nursing home search and selection process may vary depending upon the sponsor's gender and relationship to the patient. Based on previous studies on caregiving, I assume that different gender and kin roles are associated with varying self-perceptions as caregivers …
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Curiosity driven search experiences
Casual-Leisure Search describes any behaviour that allows people to express and satisfy hedonistic needs rather than information needs as part of the information-seeking process. For example, individuals who search their social media universe for hours after a long day at work may do so out of …
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Service Variation Model in Customer Relationships
… variation context. A preliminary qualitative research was conducted based on sixty in-depth interviews in order to explore whether service variations exist and get insights on the key components of the new framework from a customer perspective. The adopted model was then empirically tested …
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Using language similarities in retrieval for resource scarce languages: a study of several southern Bantu languages
… RSLs are lowly ranked and difficult to access in search results, resulting in a struggling and frustrating search experience for speakers of RSLs. In this thesis, we propose the use of language similarities to match, re-rank and return search results written in closely related languages to improve …
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A user-centred approach to information retrieval
… systems. It enables personalization of a user's search experience. The development of such a model involves three phases: collecting information about each user, representing such information, and integrating the model into a retrieval application. Progress in this area is typically met with …