An empirical analysis of search engines' response to web search queries associated with the classroom setting

O Anuyah, A Milton, M Green, MS Pera - Aslib Journal of Information …, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine strengths and limitations that search
engines (SEs) exhibit when responding to web search queries associated with the grade …

Learning to rank for educational search engines

A Usta, IS Altingovde, R Ozcan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this digital age, there is an abundance of online educational materials in public and
proprietary platforms. To allow effective retrieval of educational resources, it is a necessity to …

Looking for the movie seven or sven from the movie frozen? a multi-perspective strategy for recommending queries for children

I Madrazo Azpiazu, N Dragovic, O Anuyah… - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Popular search engines are usually tuned to satisfy the information needs of a general
audience. As a result, non-traditional, yet active groups of users, such as children …

Query formulation assistance for kids: What is available, when to help & what kids want

JA Fails, MS Pera, O Anuyah, C Kennington… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Children use popular web search tools, which are generally designed for adult users.
Because children have different developmental needs than adults, these tools may not …

The origins of Zipf's meaning‐frequency law

R Ferrer‐i‐Cancho, MS Vitevitch - Journal of the Association for …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In his pioneering research, GK Zipf observed that more frequent words tend to have more
meanings, and showed that the number of meanings of a word grows as the square root of …

The seven layers of complexity of recommender systems for children in educational contexts

E Murgia, M Landoni, T Huibers, JA Fails, MS Pera - 2019 - scholarworks.boisestate.edu
Recommender systems (RS) in their majority focus on an average target user: adults. We
argue that for non-traditional populations in specific contexts, the task is not as …

Where a Little Change Makes a Big Difference: A Preliminary Exploration of Children's Queries

MS Pera, E Murgia, M Landoni, T Huibers… - … on Information Retrieval, 2023 - Springer
This paper contributes to the discussion initiated in a recent SIGIR paper describing a gap in
the information retrieval (IR) literature on query understanding–where they come from and …

Hierarchical neural query suggestion with an attention mechanism

W Chen, F Cai, H Chen, M de Rijke - Information Processing & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Query suggestions help users of a search engine to refine their queries. Previous work on
query suggestion has mainly focused on incorporating directly observable features such as …

Suggesting simple and comprehensive queries to elementary-grade children

MT Shaikh, MS Pera, YK Ng - 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Query suggestions (QS) tailored specifically for children are slowly gaining research
attention in response to the growth in Internet use by children. Even though QS offered by …

Children and information technology

J Abbas - Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, 2003 - api.taylorfrancis.com
This entry presents research on the complex topic of children and information technology.
Covered are children aged 0–18. Information technology has changed significantly over the …