Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

Conversational information seeking (CIS) is concerned with a sequence of interactions
between one or more users and an information system. Interactions in CIS are primarily …

The truly world-wide reach of the Web has brought with it a new realisation of the enormous
importance of usability and user interface design. In the last ten years, much has become …

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 …

In information retrieval, query auto completion (QAC), also known as typeahead [**ao et al.,
2013, Cai et al., 2014b] and auto-complete suggestion [Jain and Mishne, 2010], refers to the …

People's beliefs, and unconscious biases that arise from those beliefs, influence their
judgment, decision making, and actions, as is commonly accepted among psychologists …

Sponsored search has been proven to be a successful business model, and sponsored
search auctions have become a hot research direction. There have been many exciting …

Web search engines have marked everyone's life by transforming how one searches and
accesses information. Search engines give special attention to the user interface, especially …

Leveraging clickthrough data has become a popular approach for evaluating and optimizing
information retrieval systems. Although data is plentiful, one must take care when …

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 …