Survey and evaluation of query intent detection methods

Proceedings of Workshop on Web Search Click Data, WSCD'09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-7

  Brenes, David J ^a   GayoAvello, Daniel ^b   PérezGonzález, Kilian ^b  

^a C/Campoamor 28 1 Oficina 5   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clickthrough data; Evaluation; MSN Query Log; Query intent detection; Web search behavior

Indexed keywords

CLICKTHROUGH DATA; EVALUATION; MSN QUERY LOG; QUERY INTENT DETECTION; WEB SEARCH BEHAVIOR;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 67650046423     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1507509.1507510     Document Type: Conference Paper

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