Automatic text processing: the transformation, analysis, and retrieval of information by computer
Automatic text processing: the transformation, analysis, and retrieval of information by computer
A training algorithm for optimal margin classifiers
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C4.5: programs for machine learning
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Automatic resource compilation by analyzing hyperlink structure and associated text
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The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
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Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment
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Geospatial mapping and navigation of the web
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Extracting query modifications from nonlinear SVMs
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Information Retrieval
Spatial information retrieval and geographical ontologies an overview of the SPIRIT project
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Estimating the Generalization Performance of an SVM Efficiently
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Computing Geographical Scopes of Web Resources
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Learning trees and rules with set-valued features
AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
SERF: integrating human recommendations with search
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Detecting dominant locations from search queries
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Automatic web query classification using labeled and unlabeled training data
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Hybrid index structures for location-based web search
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Improving Automatic Query Classification via Semi-Supervised Learning
ICDM '05 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
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Efficient query processing in geographic web search engines
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Building bridges for web query classification
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Coupling feature selection and machine learning methods for navigational query identification
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Automatic classification of Web queries using very large unlabeled query logs
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Robust classification of rare queries using web knowledge
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Characteristics of geographic information needs
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"I know what you did last summer": query logs and user privacy
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Spatial variation in search engine queries
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Web pages (and resources, in general) can be characterized according to their geographical locality. For example, a web page with general information about wildflowers could be considered a global page, likely to be of interest to a geographically broad audience. In contrast, a web page with listings on houses for sale in a specific city could be regarded as a local page, likely to be of interest only to an audience in a relatively narrow region. Similarly, some search engine queries (implicitly) target global pages, while other queries are after local pages. For example, the best results for query [wildflowers] are probably global pages about wildflowers such as the one discussed above. However, local pages that are relevant to, say, San Francisco are likely to be good matches for a query [houses for sale] that was issued by a San Francisco resident or by somebody moving to that city. Unfortunately, search engines do not analyze the geographical locality of queries and users, and hence often produce sub-optimal results. Thus query [wildflowers] might return pages that discuss wildflowers in specific U.S. states (and not general information about wildflowers), while query [houses for sale] might return pages with real estate listings for locations other than that of interest to the person who issued the query. Deciding whether an unseen query should produce mostly local or global pages---without placing this burden on the search engine users---is an important and challenging problem, because queries are often ambiguous or underspecify the information they are after. In this paper, we address this problem by first defining how to categorize queries according to their (often implicit) geographical locality. We then introduce several alternatives for automatically and efficiently categorizing queries in our scheme, using a variety of state-of-the-art machine learning tools. We report a thorough evaluation of our classifiers using a large sample of queries from a real web search engine, and conclude by discussing how our query categorization approach can help improve query result quality.