Publication Type
Patent
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
9-2010
Abstract
Described is a search-related technology in which context information regarding a user's prior search actions is used in making query recommendations for a current user action, such as a query or click. To determine whether each set or subset of context information is relevant to the user action, data obtained from a query log is evaluated. More particularly, a query transition (query-query) graph and a query click (query-URL) graph are extracted from the query log; vectors are computed for the current action and each context/sub-context and evaluated against vectors in the graphs to determine current action-to-context similarity. Also described is using similar context to provide the query recommendations, using parameters to control the similarity strictness, and/or whether more recent context information is more relevant than less recent context information, and using context information to distinguish between user sessions.
Discipline
Databases and Information Systems
First Page
1
Last Page
12
Publisher
USPTO
Citation
NTOULAS, Alexandros; HWANG, Heasoo; GETOOR, Lise; PAPARIZOS, Stelios; and LAUW, Hady Wirawan.
Context-aware query recommendations. (2010). 1-12.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3674
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Additional URL
http://www.google.com/patents/US20100241647