Search Query Disambiguation from Short Sessions
author:Raymond J. Mooney, Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
published: Dec. 20, 2008, recorded: December 2008, views: 174
Slides
Related content
59:32
242 views - Pedro Domingos, 2008
33:55
54 views - Pedro Domingos, Raymond J. Mooney, Lilyana Mihalkova, Anton Schwaighofer, 2008
24:47
110 views - Malik Magdon-Ismail, Sanmay Das, 2008
21:28
33 views - Lilyana Mihalkova, 2009
54:12
112 views - Raymond J. Mooney, 2008
01:00:27
295 views - Doug Lenat, 2008
47:52
343 views - Edward Chang, 2008
22:37
109 views - Deepak Agarwal, Doug Lenat, Anton Schwaighofer, A. C. Surendran, 2008
26:00
141 views - Tuyen Ngoc Huynh, 2008
59:05
145 views - Chris Burges, 2008
Report a problem or upload files
If you have found a problem with this lecture or would like to send us extra material, articles, exercises, etc., please use our ticket system to describe your request and upload the data.Enter your e-mail into the 'Cc' field, and we will keep you updated with your request's status.
Description
Web searches tend to be short and ambiguous. It is therefore not surprising that Web query disambiguation is an actively researched topic. However, most existing work relies on the existence of search engine log data in which each user's search activities are recorded over long periods of time. Such approaches may raise privacy concerns and may be difficult to implement for pragmatic reasons. In this work, we present an approach to Web query disambiguation that bases its predictions only on a short glimpse of user search activity, captured in a brief session of about 5--6 previous searches on average. Our method exploits the relations of the current search session in which the ambiguous query is issued to previous sessions in order to predict the user's intentions and is based on Markov logic. We present empirical results that demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach on data collected form a commercial general-purpose search engine.
See Also:
Download slides:
bsciw08_mihalkova_sqdss_01.ppt (384.5 KB)
Launch in a standalone WM Player
Switch to Windows Media Player
Link this page
Would you like to put a link to this lecture on your homepage?Go ahead! Copy the HTML snippet !




Write your own review or comment: