Voice-controlled intelligent personal assistants, such as Cortana, Google Now, Siri and
Alexa, are increasingly becoming a part of users' daily lives, especially on mobile devices …

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 …

Prior work on user engagement with online media identified web page dwell time as a key
metric reflecting level of user engagement with online news articles. While on average, dwell …

As online shop** becomes increasingly popular, users perform more product search to
purchase items. Previous studies have investigated people's online shop** behaviours …

Satisfaction prediction is one of the prime concerns in search performance evaluation. It is a
non-trivial task for two major reasons:(1) The definition of satisfaction is rather subjective and …

The design and presentation of a Search Engine Results Page (SERP) has been subject to
much research. With many contemporary aspects of the SERP now under scrutiny, work still …

Web search behavior and interaction data, such as mouse cursor movements, can provide
valuable information on how searchers examine and engage with the web search results …

Information about a user's domain knowledge and interest can be important signals for many
information retrieval tasks such as query suggestion or result ranking. State-of-the-art user …

We formulate a document summarization method to extract passage-level answers for non-
factoid queries, referred to as answer-biased summaries. We propose to use external …

Searching for information when using a computerised retrieval system is a complex and
inherently interactive process. Individuals during a search session may issue multiple …