Discovering users' specific geo intention in web search

WWW'09 - Proceedings of the 18th International World Wide Web Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 481-490

  Yi, Xing ^a   Raghavan, Hema ^b   Leggetter, Chris ^b  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

City language model; Geo intent; Geographic search intent; Implicit search intent; Local search intent

Indexed keywords

GEO INTENT; GEOGRAPHIC SEARCH INTENT; IMPLICIT SEARCH INTENT; LANGUAGE MODEL; LOCAL SEARCH;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WEBSITES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80055033536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1526709.1526774     Document Type: Conference Paper

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