Search log analysis: What it is, what's been done, how to do it

BJ Jansen - Library & information science research, 2006 - Elsevier
The use of data stored in transaction logs of Web search engines, Intranets, and Web sites
can provide valuable insight into understanding the information-searching process of online …

A day in the life of PubMed: analysis of a typical day's query log

JR Herskovic, LY Tanaka, W Hersh… - Journal of the …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Objective: To characterize PubMed usage over a typical day and compare it to
previous studies of user behavior on Web search engines. Design: We performed a lexical …

Tagging and searching: Search retrieval effectiveness of folksonomies on the World Wide Web

PJ Morrison - Information Processing & Management, 2008 - Elsevier
Many Web sites have begun allowing users to submit items to a collection and tag them with
keywords. The folksonomies built from these tags are an interesting topic that has seen little …

Conceptualizing media stimuli in experimental research: Psychological versus attribute-based definitions

CC Tao, EP Bucy - Human Communication Research, 2007 - academic.oup.com
This paper argues for a clearer conceptualization of media stimuli in experimental research
and identifies 3 issues impeding our understanding of message processing:(a) assumptions …

Searching the enterprise

U Kruschwitz, C Hull - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2017 - nowpublishers.com
Search has become ubiquitous but that does not mean that search has been solved.
Enterprise search, which is broadly speaking the use of information retrieval technology to …

Time series analysis of a Web search engine transaction log

Y Zhang, BJ Jansen, A Spink - Information processing & management, 2009 - Elsevier
In this paper, we use time series analysis to evaluate predictive scenarios using search
engine transactional logs. Our goal is to develop models for the analysis of searchers' …

Capability-aware Prompt Reformulation Learning for Text-to-Image Generation

J Zhan, Q Ai, Y Liu, J Chen, S Ma - … of the 47th International ACM SIGIR …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Text-to-image generation systems have emerged as revolutionary tools in the realm of
artistic creation, offering unprecedented ease in transforming textual prompts into visual art …

What are the real differences of children's and adults' web search

T Gossen, T Low, A Nürnberger - … of the 34th international ACM SIGIR …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
We present first results of a logfile analysis on web search engines for children. The aim of
this research is to analyse fundamental facts about how children's web search behaviour …

The archive query log: mining millions of search result pages of hundreds of search engines from 25 years of web archives

JH Reimer, S Schmidt, M Fröbe, L Gienapp… - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The Archive Query Log (AQL) is a previously unused, comprehensive query log collected at
the Internet Archive over the last 25 years. Its first version includes 356 million queries, 137 …

Understanding faceted search from data science and human factor perspectives

X Niu, X Fan, T Zhang - ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Faceted search has become a common feature on most search interfaces in e-commerce
websites, digital libraries, government's open information portals, and so on. Beyond the …