| Predicting query times |
McNab, R., Wang, Y., Witten, I. H., Gutwin, C. (1998) Proc ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval,edited by W.B. Croft, et al., Melbourne, Australia, pp 355-356. ACM Press. |
We outline the need for search engines to provide user feedback on the expected time of a query, describe a scheme for learning a model of query time by observing sample queries, and discuss the results obtained for a set of actual user queries on a document collection using the MG search engine. |