Search Assistant: Effect of Chatbot on User's Collaborative Search Behavior

Collaborative search is "the retrieval and sensemaking of information by multiple users with the same information need". The experience of collaborative search can be improved by employing a chatbot which is "a program designed to counterfeit a smart communication". Chatbot makes it easier for the users to be aware of each other's activities and...

Leveraging graphical user interfaces to facilitate selection of elements in web-pages

Web-based interaction logging is an important concept for understanding user behavior on web-pages. LogUI is a powerful modern framework for logging a user's interactions. Integrating such a framework in web-pages requires the construction of configuration objects to define selectors that indicate which elements on a web-page should be under...

Query Answerability Classifier for Direct Answer Module in Web Search Engines

In order determine when we can show direct answer module to user queries in web search engine, an independent classifier is designed in this study to assess the answerability of each user query. Real user queries are sampled from MS MARCO Question Answering and Natural Langauge Generation dataset \cite{MSMARCO} and manually labelled with query...