Context-Aware Online Commercial Intention Detection

  • Authors:
  • Derek Hao Hu;Dou Shen;Jian-Tao Sun;Qiang Yang;Zheng Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,;Microsoft Research,;Microsoft Research Asia,;Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,;Microsoft Research Asia,

  • Venue:
  • ACML '09 Proceedings of the 1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning: Advances in Machine Learning
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

With more and more commercial activities moving onto the Internet, people tend to purchase what they need through Internet or conduct some online research before the actual transactions happen. For many Web users, their online commercial activities start from submitting a search query to search engines. Just like the common Web search queries, the queries with commercial intention are usually very short. Recognizing the queries with commercial intention against the common queries will help search engines provide proper search results and advertisements, help Web users obtain the right information they desire and help the advertisers benefit from the potential transactions. However, the intentions behind a query vary a lot for users with different background and interest. The intentions can even be different for the same user, when the query is issued in different contexts. In this paper, we present a new algorithm framework based on skip-chain conditional random field (SCCRF) for automatically classifying Web queries according to context-based online commercial intention . We analyze our algorithm performance both theoretically and empirically. Extensive experiments on several real search engine log datasets show that our algorithm can improve more than 10% on F1 score than previous algorithms on commercial intention detection.