Learning to shorten query sessions

Authors:
Cristina Ioana Muntean;Franco Maria Nardini;Fabrizio Silvestri;Marcin Sydow
Affiliations:
ISTI - CNR, Pisa, Italy;ISTI - CNR, Pisa, Italy;ISTI - CNR, Pisa, Italy;Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences and Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Venue:
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
Year:
2013

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Abstract

We propose the use of learning to rank techniques to shorten query sessions by maximizing the probability that the query we predict is the "final" query of the current search session. We present a preliminary evaluation showing that this approach is a promising research direction.