An Editable Browser for Reranking Web Search Results

This paper proposes methods of reranking Web search results according to user´s editing operations while browsing the search results. It is difficult for search engines to rank search results which satisfy the user´s search intention adequately because the user´s Web search intentions are diverse. Hence, the user must check search results sequentially, or re-search creating a new query. In order to solve this problem, we introduce editing operations such as deletion and emphasis for searched results. When the user deletes a part of the search results, our system degrades search results which include the deleted term or sentence. When the user emphasizes a part of the search results, our system upgrades search results which include the emphasized term or sentence. We describe the implementations of these reranking methods and provide evaluations.