loading...
 This Article 
   
 Share 
   
 Bibliographic References 
   
 Add to: 
 
Digg
Furl
Spurl
Blink
Simpy
Google
Del.icio.us
Y!MyWeb
 
 Search 
   
Organizing User Search Histories
PrePrint
ISSN: 1041-4347
Heasoo Hwang, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Yongin-si
Hady W. Lauw, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, College Park
Alexandros Ntoulas, Microsoft Research, Mountain View
Users are increasingly pursuing complex task-oriented goals on the Web, such as making travel arrangements, managing finances or planning purchases. To this end, they usually break down the tasks into a few co-dependent steps and issue multiple queries around these steps repeatedly over long periods of time. To better support users in their long-term information quests on the Web, search engines keep track of their queries and clicks while searching online. In this paper, we study the problem of organizing a user's historical queries into groups in a dynamic and automated fashion. Automatically identifying query groups is helpful for a number of different search engine components and applications, such as query suggestions, result ranking, query alterations, sessionization, and collaborative search. In our approach, we go beyond approaches that rely on textual similarity or time thresholds, and we propose a more robust approach that leverages search query logs. We experimentally study the performance of different techniques, and showcase their potential, especially when combined together.
Index Terms:
Web Search, Search process, Clustering, Online Information Services
Citation:
Heasoo Hwang, Hady W. Lauw, Lise Getoor, Alexandros Ntoulas, "Organizing User Search Histories," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 23 Dec. 2010. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society, <http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TKDE.2010.251>
Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use.