WSSP 2009 -- Accepted Papers

21 papers were submitted and 9 were accepted. Acceptance rate: 43%.
authors/affiliation title
Metrics
Rehan Khan, David Mease and Rajan Patel
(Google)
The Impact of Result Abstracts on Task Completion Time
Shanu Sushmita, Hideo Joho, Mounia Lalmas and Joemon M. Jose
(U. Glasgow)
Understanding domain ``relevance'' in web search
Charles Mathis
(Google)
Position Effects in Web Search Click Behavior
Usability, UI
Georg Buscher and Andreas Dengel
(DFKI, Germany, U. Kaiserslautern)
Gaze-Based Filtering of Relevant Document Segments
Marian Dörk, Carey Williamson and Sheelagh Carpendale
(U. Calgary)
Towards Visual Web Search: Interactive Query Formulation and Search Result Visualization
Shreeharsh Kelkar, Ajita John and Doree Duncan Seligmann
(Avaya Labs)
Visualizing Web Search Results as Conversations
NLP, Summarization
Sumit Bhatia and Prasenjit Mitra
(Penn State Univ)
Synopses Generation for Specialized Document-Element Search Engines
Omar Alonso, Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Michael Gertz
(Yahoo! Labs)
Effectiveness of Temporal Snippets
Michel Genereux
(LIPN, France)
Summarizing a Blog Search Engine Hits