Transitive history-based query disambiguation for query reformulation

  • Authors:
  • Karim Filali;Anish Nair;Chris Leggetter

  • Affiliations:
  • Yahoo! Labs, Santa Clara, CA, USA;Yahoo! Labs, Santa Clara, CA, USA;Yahoo! Labs, Santa Clara, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2010

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

We present a probabilistic model of a user's search history and a target query reformulation. We derive a simple transitive similarity algorithm for disambiguating queries and improving history-based query reformulation accuracy. We compare the merits of this approach to other methods and present results on both examples assessed by human editors and on automatically-labeled click data.