Contextual evaluation of query reformulations in a search session by user simulation

  • Authors:
  • Jiepu Jiang;Daqing He;Shuguang Han;Zhen Yue;Chaoqun Ni

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA;University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA;University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA;University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA;Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We propose a method to dynamically estimate the utility of documents in a search session by modeling the users' browsing behaviors and novelty. The method can be applied to evaluate query reformulations in a search session.