Peter Bailey

Ingrams

2016

Why do people start a search? Why do they stop? Why do they do what they do in-between? Our goal in this paper is to provide a simple yet general explanation for these acts that …

Incorporating User Expectations and Behavior into the Measurement of Search Effectiveness

2017 · ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Information retrieval systems aim to help users satisfy information needs. We argue that the goal of the person using the system, and the pattern of behavior that they exhibit as they proceed to attain that …