An evaluation of entity and frequency based query completion methods

  • Authors:
  • Edgar Meij;Peter Mika;Hugo Zaragoza

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands;Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain;Yahoo! Research, Barcelona, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present a semantic approach to suggesting query completions which leverages entity and type information. When compared to a frequency-based approach, we show that such information mostly helps rare queries.