Towards searching as a learning process: A review of current perspectives and future directions

SY Rieh, K Collins-Thompson… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
We critically review literature on the association between searching and learning and
contribute to the formulation of a research agenda for searching as learning. The paper …

Computational assessment of text readability: A survey of current and future research

K Collins-Thompson - ITL-International Journal of Applied …, 2014 - jbe-platform.com
Assessing text readability is a time-honored problem that has even more relevance in
today's information-rich world. This article provides background on how readability of texts is …

[BOK][B] Interactions with search systems

RW White - 2016 - books.google.com
Information seeking is a fundamental human activity. In the modern world, it is frequently
conducted through interactions with search systems. The retrieval and comprehension of …

Lessons from the journey: a query log analysis of within-session learning

C Eickhoff, J Teevan, R White, S Dumais - Proceedings of the 7th ACM …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Search engines in learning contexts: a literature review

JK Homte, B Batchakui, R Nkambou - International Journal of …, 2022 - learntechlib.org
The web is one of the primary sources of information for finding learning oriented
documents. In addition, the main suitable way to find information and documents on the …

Trends, limitations and open challenges in automatic readability assessment research

S Vajjala - arxiv preprint arxiv:2105.00973, 2021 - arxiv.org
Readability assessment is the task of evaluating the reading difficulty of a given piece of text.
Although research on computational approaches to readability assessment is now two …

Assessing learning outcomes in web search: A comparison of tasks and query strategies

K Collins-Thompson, SY Rieh, CC Haynes… - Proceedings of the 2016 …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Users make frequent use of Web search for learning-related tasks, but little is known about
how different Web search interaction strategies affect outcomes for learning-oriented tasks …

Resolving multiple occluded layers in augmented reality

MA Livingston, JE Swan, JL Gabbard… - The Second IEEE …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A useful function of augmented reality (AR) systems is their ability to visualize occluded
infrastructure directly in a user's view of the environment. This is especially important for our …

Struggling or exploring? Disambiguating long search sessions

A Hassan, RW White, ST Dumais… - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Web searchers often exhibit directed search behaviors such as navigating to a particular
Website. However, in many circumstances they exhibit different behaviors that involve …

A neural pairwise ranking model for readability assessment

J Lee, S Vajjala - arxiv preprint arxiv:2203.07450, 2022 - arxiv.org
Automatic Readability Assessment (ARA), the task of assigning a reading level to a text, is
traditionally treated as a classification problem in NLP research. In this paper, we propose …