A language modeling approach to information retrieval
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to Ad Hoc information retrieval
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Support Vector Machine Active Learning with Application sto Text Classification
ICML '00 Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning
An Overview of the INQUERY System as Used for the TIPSTER Project
An Overview of the INQUERY System as Used for the TIPSTER Project
Word association norms, mutual information, and lexicography
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
An empirical study of smoothing techniques for language modeling
ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Detecting dominant locations from search queries
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A query-aware document ranking method for geographic information retrieval
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Geographical information retrieval
Weakly-supervised discovery of named entities using web search queries
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management
Modeling and visualizing geo-sensitive queries based on user clicks
Proceedings of the first international workshop on Location and the web
Automatically identifying localizable queries
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Geographic intention and modification in web search
International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Personalize web search results with user's location
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Hyper-local, directions-based ranking of places
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Personalized web search with user geographic and temporal preferences
APWeb'11 Proceedings of the 13th Asia-Pacific web conference on Web technologies and applications
Improving local search ranking through external logs
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Acquiring knowledge about human goals from Search Query Logs
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
"I'm eating a sandwich in Glasgow": modeling locations with tweets
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Search and mining user-generated contents
Towards the taxonomy-oriented categorization of yellow pages queries
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Learning to rank with multi-aspect relevance for vertical search
Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Personalization and privacy: a survey of privacy risks and remedies in personalization-based systems
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
An exploration of ranking heuristics in mobile local search
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Mining the web for points of interest
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
G-WSTD: a framework for geographic web search topic discovery
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Role-explicit query identification and intent role annotation
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
A content-driven framework for geolocating microblog users
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) - Special section on twitter and microblogging services, social recommender systems, and CAMRa2010: Movie recommendation in context
Measuring personalization of web search
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
Map search via a factor graph model
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
Mining search and browse logs for web search: A Survey
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) - Survey papers, special sections on the semantic adaptive social web, intelligent systems for health informatics, regular papers
An intelligent web recommendation system for ubiquitous geolocation awareness
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
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Discovering users' specific and implicit geographic intention in web search can greatly help satisfy users' information needs. We build a geo intent analysis system that uses minimal supervision to learn a model from large amounts of web-search logs for this discovery. We build a city language model, which is a probabilistic representation of the language surrounding the mention of a city in web queries. We use several features derived from these language models to: (1) identify users' implicit geo intent and pinpoint the city corresponding to this intent, (2) determine whether the geo-intent is localized around the users' current geographic location, (3) predict cities for queries that have a mention of an entity that is located in a specific place. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of using features derived from the city language model. We find that (1) the system has over 90% precision and more than 74% accuracy for the task of detecting users' implicit city level geo intent (2) the system achieves more than 96% accuracy in determining whether implicit geo queries are local geo queries, neighbor region geo queries or none-of-these (3) the city language model can effectively retrieve cities in location-specific queries with high precision (88%) and recall (74%); human evaluation shows that the language model predicts city labels for location-specific queries with high accuracy (84.5%).