DYNAMIC QUERY EXPANSION BASED ON USER’S REAL TIME IMPLICIT FEEDBACK

Sanasam Ranbir Singh, Hema A. Murthy, Timothy A. Gonsalves

2010

Abstract

Majority of the queries submitted to search engines are short and under-specified. Query expansion is a commonly used technique to address this issue. However, existing query expansion frameworks have an inherent problem of poor coherence between expansion terms and user’s search goal. User’s search goal, even for the same query, may be different at different instances. This often leads to poor retrieval performance. In many instances, user’s current search is influenced by his/her recent searches. In this paper, we study a framework which explores user’s implicit feedback provided at the time of search to determine user’s search context. We then incorporate the proposed framework with query expansion to identify relevant query expansion terms. From extensive experiments, it is evident that the proposed framework can capture the dynamics of user’s search and adapt query expansion accordingly.

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Ranbir Singh S., A. Murthy H. and A. Gonsalves T. (2010). DYNAMIC QUERY EXPANSION BASED ON USER’S REAL TIME IMPLICIT FEEDBACK . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-28-7, pages 112-121. DOI: 10.5220/0003104901120121


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@conference{kdir10,
author={Sanasam Ranbir Singh and Hema A. Murthy and Timothy A. Gonsalves},
title={DYNAMIC QUERY EXPANSION BASED ON USER’S REAL TIME IMPLICIT FEEDBACK},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={112-121},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003104901120121},
isbn={978-989-8425-28-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2010)
TI - DYNAMIC QUERY EXPANSION BASED ON USER’S REAL TIME IMPLICIT FEEDBACK
SN - 978-989-8425-28-7
AU - Ranbir Singh S.
AU - A. Murthy H.
AU - A. Gonsalves T.
PY - 2010
SP - 112
EP - 121
DO - 10.5220/0003104901120121