Research Theme: Query Auto-Completion

Query auto-completion is a popular feature of web search engines that aims to assist users to formulate queries faster and avoid spelling mistakes by presenting them with possible completions as they start entering a query. This research theme focuses on studying how users interact with query auto-completion systems and developing new methods for effective and efficient query auto-completion.

Publications

Query Auto-Completion for Rare Prefixes

Bhaskar Mitra and Nick Craswell
In proc. ACM CIKM, 2015
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Exploring Session Context using Distributed Representations of Queries and Reformulations

Bhaskar Mitra
In proc. ACM SIGIR, 2015
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An Eye-tracking Study of User Interactions with Query Auto Completion

Kajta Hofmann, Bhaskar Mitra, Filip Radlinski, and Milad Shokouhi
In proc. ACM CIKM, 2014
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On user interactions with query auto-completion

Bhaskar Mitra, Milad Shokouhi, Filip Radlinski, and Katja Hofmann
In proc. ACM SIGIR, 2014
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