Synthesizing high utility suggestions for rare web search queries

SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 805-814

  Jain, Alpa ^a   Ozertem, Umut ^a   Velipasaoglu, Emre ^a  

^a YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Query recommendations; Rare queries; Search query logs

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WEBSITES;

CRITICAL CHALLENGES; END-TO-END SYSTEMS; QUERY FORMULATION; QUERY RECOMMENDATIONS; RARE QUERIES; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SEARCH QUERIES; WEB SEARCH QUERIES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 80052127248     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2009916.2010024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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