Personal name classification in web queries

WSDM'08 - Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 149-158

  Shen, Dou ^a   Walkery, Toby ^a   Zhengy, Zijian ^a   Yangz, Qiang ^b   Li, Ying ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Personal name classification; Probabilistic dictionaries; Web query; Web search

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEARCH ENGINES;

PERSONAL NAME CLASSIFICATION; PROBABILISTIC DICTIONARIES; WEB QUERY; WEB SEARCH;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 42549089733     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1341531.1341553     Document Type: Conference Paper

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