Asking clarifying questions in response to search queries has been recognized as a useful
technique for revealing the underlying intent of the query. Clarification has applications in …

As one of the most advanced techniques in AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
techniques can offer reliable and up-to-date external knowledge, providing huge …

User interaction (UI) logs are high-resolution event logs that record low-level activities
performed by a user during the execution of a task in an information system. Each event in …

Studying the behavior of users in software systems has become an essential task for
software vendors who want to mitigate usability problems and identify automation potentials …

Getting a better understanding of user behavior is important for advancing information
retrieval systems. Existing work focuses on modeling and predicting single interaction …

To study the impact of providing direct answers in search results on user behavior, we
conducted a controlled user study to analyze factors including reading time, eye-tracked …

Image search engines show results differently from general Web search engines in three
key ways:(1) most Web-based image search engines adopt the two-dimensional result …

Compared to general web search engines, web image search engines display results in a
different way. In web image search, results are typically placed in a grid-based manner …

In this paper, we propose a novel local and global deep matching model to tackle
bidirectional image-sentence retrieval. Our proposed matching model can simultaneously …

Understanding search intents behind queries is of vital importance for improving search
performance or designing better evaluation metrics. Although there exist many efforts in Web …