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What is transactional search?

• Andrei Broder, A taxonomy of Web search, SIGIR Forum, 2002
• Daniel E. Rose and Danny Levinson, Understanding User Goals in Web Search, WWW, 2004
• Trystan Upstill, Nick Craswell and David Hawking, Buying bestsellers online: A case study in Search & Searchability, the 7th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, 2002

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Other papers that have tackled the problem

• In-Ho Kang, Transactional Query Identification in Web Search, Asian Information Retrieval Symposium, 2005

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Other related topics:

Intranet and Enterprise Search

• Ronald Fagin, Ravi Kumar, Kevin S. McCurley, Jasmine Novak, D. Sivakumar, John A. Tomlin and David P. Williamson. Searching the Workplace Web. WWW 2003
• David Hawking Challenges in Enterprise Search, Proceedings of the Australasian Database Conference, 2004
• Andrei Z. Broder and Arthur C. Ciccolo, Towards the next generation of enterprise search technology, IBM Systems Journal 43(3): 451-454 (2004)
• Raghavan Prabhakar contribution to CIDR 2005 panel discussion

A bibliography of Enterprise Search can be found here

Web Genre Identification

• Andrew Dillon and Barbara Gushrowski, Genres and the Web - is the home page the first digital genre?, JASIS 51(2): 202-205 (2000)
• Georg Rehm, Towards automatic web genre identification -- a corpus-based approach in the domain of academia by example of the academic's personal homepage, HICSS, 2002
• Brett Kessler, Geoffrey Numberg, Hinrich Schütze , Automatic detection of text genre ACL 1997

Query Type Classification

• Diane Kelly, Vanessa Murdock, Xiao-jun Yuan, Bruce Croft, and Nicholas J. Belkin. Features of documents relevant to task- and fact- oriented questions. CIKM 2002
• In-Ho Kang and GilChang Kim, Query type classification for web document retrieval, SIGIR, 2003
• In-Ho Kang and Gil Chang Kim, Integration of multiple evidences based on a query type for web search, Information Process Management 40 (3): 459-478 ( 2004)
• Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Ophir Frieder, David Grossman, Automatic Web Query Classification Using Labeled and Unlabeled Training Data, SIGIR 2005
• Vanessa Murdock, Diane Kelly, W. Bruce Croft, Nicholas J. Belkin and Xiaojun Yuan. Identifying and improving retrieval for procedural questions. Information Processing & Management 43 (1), 181-203 (2007)
  

Search Goal Identification

• Uichin Lee, Zhenyu Liu, Junghoo Cho, Automatic Identification of User Goals in Web Search,WWW, 2005

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