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title: "A Live-User Evaluation of Collaborative Web Search"
authors:
  - "Barry Smyth"
  - "Evelyn Balfe"
  - "Oisín Boydell"
  - "Keith Bradley"
  - "Peter Briggs"
  - "Maurice Coyle"
  - "Jill Freyne"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2005/63"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2005/0063.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2005
pages: "1419-1423"
track: ""
keywords:
---

# A Live-User Evaluation of Collaborative Web Search

Barry Smyth, Evelyn Balfe, Oisín Boydell, Keith Bradley, Peter Briggs, Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne

*Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1419-1423.

## Abstract

Collaborative Web search exploits repetition and regularity within the query-space of a community of like-minded individuals in order to improve the quality of search results. In short, search results that have been judged to be relevant for past queries are promoted in response to similar queries that occur in the future. In this paper we present the results of a large-scale evaluation of this approach, in a corporate Web search scenario, which shows that significant benefits are available to its users.