A large-scale study on map search logs

ACM Transactions on the Web

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1-33

  Xiao, Xiangye ^a   Luo, Qiong ^a   Li, Zhisheng ^b   Xie, Xing ^c   Ma, Wei Ying ^c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Local search; Log analysis; Map search; Query categorization; Search interface; User behavior

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SEARCH ENGINES;

LOCAL SEARCH; LOG ANALYSIS; QUERY CATEGORIZATION; SEARCH INTERFACES; USER BEHAVIORS;

LOCATION;

EID: 77954997015     PISSN: 15591131     EISSN: 1559114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1806916.1806917     Document Type: Article

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