Understanding and Predicting Success of Web Searches based on Search Behavior
Status
Running master thesis
Student
- Dakai Men
Related projects
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- WebSAIL
- Web search literacy: Awareness, interface complexity and long-term effects (WebSAIL)
To be finished
2020
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Formalia
- Targeted audience
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- ISE Master
- Preconditions
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- Vorlesung Internetsuchmaschinen/Information Retrieval hilfreich
- Kenntnisse in Web-Technologien
- Erfahrung in der Programmierung mit Java / Python
Task description
Students of German universities have been trained in the course of the WebSAIL project in becoming better at Web searching. A number of search tasks were required to be solved in this regard. In this work, we will uncover differences in search behavior between successful and unsuccessful sessions in order to understand why searchers sometimes fail at finding desired solutions. This knowledge is to be used with the goal of creating models for predicting the likelihood of a search session being successful or not.
Literature
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- Stark, Birgit; Dörr, Dieter; Aufenanger, Stefan (2014).
- Die Googleisierung der Informationssuche - Suchmaschinen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Nutzung und Regulierung. Management Summary.
- Internet-Suchmaschinen Skript
- http://www.is.inf.uni-due.de/courses/ir_ss14/ISMs_1-7.pdf, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Norbert Fuhr, 8. September 2014