Aging effects on Query Flow Graph for Query Suggestion Export

@inproceedings{nardini2009aging, abstract = {A recent query-log mining approach for query recommendation is based on Query Flow Graphs (QFG). In this paper we propose an evaluation of the effects of time on this query recommendation model. As users interests change over time, the knowledge extracted from query logs may suffer an aging effect as new interesting topics appear. In order to validate experimentally this hypothesis, we build different query flow graphs from the queries belonging to a large query log of a real-world search engine. Each query flow graph is built on distinct query log segments. Then, we generate recommendations on different sets of queries. Results are assessed both by means of human judgments and by using an automatic evaluator showing that the models inexorably age.}, author = {Nardini, F. M. and Perego, R. and Silvestri, F. and Castillo, C. and Donato, D. and Baraglia, R.}, booktitle = {Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM),}, citeulike-article-id = {6058193}, keywords = {flow\_graphs, query-logs}, location = {Hong Kong (2009)}, posted-at = {2009-11-03 03:49:57}, priority = {2}, title = {Aging effects on Query Flow Graph for Query Suggestion}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - nardini2009aging L3 - citeulike-article-id:6058193 N2 - A recent query-log mining approach for query recommendation is based on Query Flow Graphs (QFG). In this paper we propose an evaluation of the effects of time on this query recommendation model. As users interests change over time, the knowledge extracted from query logs may suffer an aging effect as new interesting topics appear. In order to validate experimentally this hypothesis, we build different query flow graphs from the queries belonging to a large query log of a real-world search engine. Each query flow graph is built on distinct query log segments. Then, we generate recommendations on different sets of queries. Results are assessed both by means of human judgments and by using an automatic evaluator showing that the models inexorably age. CY - Hong Kong (2009) TI - Aging effects on Query Flow Graph for Query Suggestion T2 - Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), KW - flow_graphs KW - query-logs AU - Nardini, FM AU - Perego, R AU - Silvestri, F AU - Castillo, C AU - Donato, D AU - Baraglia, R PY - 2009/// ER -