Papers with Search engines
SciSight: Combining faceted navigation and research group detection for COVID-19 exploratory scientific search (2020.emnlp-demos)
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Tom Hope, Jason Portenoy, Kishore Vasan, Jonathan Borchardt, Eric Horvitz, Daniel Weld, Marti Hearst, Jevin West
| Challenge: | SciSight is a system for exploratory search of COVID-19 literature . it explores associations between biomedical facets extracted from papers . |
| Approach: | They propose a system for exploratory search of COVID-19 literature that integrates two key capabilities: first, exploring associations between biomedical facets automatically extracted from papers; second, combining textual and network information to search and visualize groups of researchers and their ties. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system has served over 15K users with over 42K page views and 13% returns. |
The Power of Framing: How News Headlines Guide Search Behavior (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Framing effects on judgment are well documented, but their impact on subsequent search behavior is less understood. |
| Approach: | They conducted a controlled experiment where participants issued queries and selected headlines filtered by specific linguistic frames. |
| Outcome: | The results suggest that even brief exposure to framing can meaningfully alter the direction of users’ information-seeking behavior. |
Digital Gatekeepers: Google’s Role in Curating Hashtags and Subreddits (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | This study examines how search engines like Google selectively promote or suppress certain hashtags and subreddits, impacting the flow of information and impacting public conversations. |
| Approach: | They compare search engine results with nonsampled data from Reddit and Twitter/X to examine how search engines curate content through algorithmic curation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed algorithm suppresses subreddits related to sexually explicit material, conspiracy theories, advertisements, and cryptocurrencies while promoting content associated with higher engagement. |
WikiHowQA: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multi-Document Non-Factoid Question Answering (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Answering non-factoid questions (NFQs) is a challenging task, requiring passage-level answers that are difficult to construct and evaluate. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-document NFQA benchmark built on WikiHow, a website dedicated to answering “how-to” questions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework includes 11,746 human-written answers along with 74,527 supporting documents. |
Content Explorer: Recommending Novel Entities for a Document Writer (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing tools for exploratory search can be useful for document writers but they are not always effective for identifying topics for further research. |
| Approach: | They propose a supervised learning problem for recommending topics to a writer . they propose entropy loss function modification to improve the results . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on a large dataset and can be used to identify topics for further research. |