A study of query length Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:3032028, abstract = {We analyse query length, and fit power-law and Poisson distributions to four different query sets. We provide a practical model for query length, based on the truncation of a Poisson distribution for short queries and a power-law distribution for longer queries, that better fits real query length distributions than earlier proposals.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Arampatzis, Avi and Kamps, Jaap}, booktitle = {SIGIR '08: Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval}, citeulike-article-id = {3032028}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1390334.1390517}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1390334.1390517}, doi = {10.1145/1390334.1390517}, isbn = {978-1-60558-164-4}, keywords = {length, query}, location = {Singapore, Singapore}, pages = {811--812}, posted-at = {2009-11-07 14:06:30}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A study of query length}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1390334.1390517}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3032028 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3032028 N2 - We analyse query length, and fit power-law and Poisson distributions to four different query sets. We provide a practical model for query length, based on the truncation of a Poisson distribution for short queries and a power-law distribution for longer queries, that better fits real query length distributions than earlier proposals. CY - Singapore, Singapore SN - 978-1-60558-164-4 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 812 TI - A study of query length PB - ACM T2 - SIGIR '08: Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval SP - 811 KW - length KW - query AU - Arampatzis, Avi AU - Kamps, Jaap PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1390334.1390517 ER -