Matthew Runo wrote:
Which papers did you see that actually talked about using clicks? I don't see those, beyond "Addressing Malicious Noise in Clickthrough Data" by Filip Radlinski and also his "Query Chains: Learning to Rank from Implicit Feedback" - but neither is really on topic.
Here are three that I've found useful:
P. Young, C. Clarke, et.al. Improving Retrieval Accuracy by Weighting Document Types with Clickthrough Data. SIGIR 2007.
E. Agichtein, E. Brill, and S. Dumais. Improving Web Search Ranking by incorporation user behavior information. SIGIR 2006.
T. Joachims, L. Granka, and B. Pan. Accurately Interpreting Clickthrough Data as Implicit Feedback. SIGIR 2005.
-Sean