Predicting Query Times

Rodger McNab
Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Off Knighton Road, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Yong Wang
Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Off Knighton Road, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Ian H. Witten
Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Off Knighton Road, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Carl Gutwin
Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Off Knighton Road, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Abstract

We outline the need for search engines to provide user feedback on the expected time for a query, describe a scheme for learning a model of query time by observing sample queries, and discuss the results obtained for a set of actual user queries on a document collection using the MG search engine.

SIGIR'98
24-28 August 1998
Melbourne, Australia.
sigir98@cs.mu.oz.au.