Personalized query expansion in the QIC system

  • Authors:
  • Prat Tanapaisankit;Lori Watrous-deVersterre;Min Song

  • Affiliations:
  • New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA;New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA;New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Query In Context (QIC) is a personalized search system that enhances individual search by incorporating user preferences in query expansion, capturing meanings embedded in documents, and ranking search results with context-enriched features. In this paper, we propose a new technique for QIC's Query Expansion module, which reformulates user queries by using novel statistical-based and knowledge-based query expansion techniques to improve the returned results. The promising preliminary results analyzed through precision and recall metrics show better alignment between the user's interests and the results retrieved.