Estimating the value of automatic disambiguation

  • Authors:
  • Paul Thomas;Tom Rowlands

  • Affiliations:
  • Australian National University, Canberra, Australia;CSIRO ICT Centre, Canberra, Australia

  • Venue:
  • SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A common motivation for personalised search systems is the ability to disambiguate queries based on some knowledge of a user's interests. An analysis of log files from three search providers, covering a range of scenarios, suggests that this sort of disambiguation would be of marginal use for more specialised providers but may be of use for whole-of-Web search.