Failure Analysis in Query Construction: Data and Analysis from a Large Sample of Web Queries

Table of Contents

Failure Analysis in Query Construction: Data and Analysis from a Large Sample of Web Queries

Outline

Objectives

Objectives

Significance

Excite

Sample

Use of Boolean Operators

Example of Boolean Query

Use of term modifiers

Example of Term Modifier

Additional Observations

Major findings

Conclusions

Research Status and Future Research

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When using data from this presentation, please reference the ACM Digital Libraries 98 presentation, "Failure Analysis in Query Construction," by MAJ Bernard J. Jansen, Amanda Spink, and Tefko Saracevic