Research Article

Beyond Query-Oriented Highlighting: Investigating the Effect of Snippet Text Highlighting in Search User Behavior

Table 6

Search benefit comparison across different search tasks.

ā€‰NA (%)IN (%)TR (%)w/IA (%)w/oIA (%)

C-CG8.29.122.421.78.3
C-DCG6.24.820.97.07.8
E-CG15.610.614.620.40.7
E-DCG14.317.618.226.410.6

Percentage decrease are, respectively, denoted by down arrow and down filled triangle, and percentage increase is, respectively, denoted by up arrow. Filled triangle indicates t-test; statistical significance at level.