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    • Evaluating Entity Relationship Recommenders in a Complex Information Retrieval Context 

      Thomas, Jack (University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)
      Information Retrieval, as a field, has long subscribed to an orthodox evaluation approach known as the Cranfield paradigm. This approach and the assumptions that underpin it have been essential to building the traditional ...
    • Health Misinformation in Search and Social Media 

      Ghenai, Amira (University of Waterloo, 2019-11-28)
      People increasingly rely on the Internet in order to search for and share health-related information. Indeed, searching for and sharing information about medical treatments are among the most frequent uses of online data. ...
    • Personal Email Spam Filtering with Minimal User Interaction 

      Mojdeh, Mona (University of Waterloo, 2012-04-30)
      This thesis investigates ways to reduce or eliminate the necessity of user input to learning-based personal email spam filters. Personal spam filters have been shown in previous studies to yield superior effectiveness, ...
    • The Positive and Negative Influence of Search Results on People's Decisions about the Efficacy of Medical Treatments 

      Pogacar, Frances A.; Ghenai, Amira; Smucker, Mark; Clarke, Charles L. A. (ACM, 2017-10-01)
      People regularly use web search engines to investigate the efficacy of medical treatments. Search results can contain documents that present incorrect information that contradicts current established medical understanding ...
    • Privacy and Security Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviours: Informing Future Tool Design 

      Weber, Janna-Lynn (University of Waterloo, 2010-08-26)
      Usable privacy and security has become a significant area of interest for many people in both industry and academia. A better understanding of the knowledge and motivation is an important factor in the design of privacy ...
    • A Study of Immediate Requery Behavior in Search 

      Zhang, Haotian; Abualsaud, Mustafa; Smucker, Mark (Association for Computing Machinery, 2018-03-11)
      When search results fail to satisfy users' information needs, users often reformulate their search query in the hopes of receiving better results. In many cases, users immediately requery without clicking on any search ...

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