Identifying users' topical tasks in web search

WSDM 2013 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 93-102

  Hua, Wen ^a,b   Song, Yangqiu ^b   Wang, Haixun ^b   Zhou, Xiaofang ^a,c  

^a RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

conceptualization; interleaved task; probase; task identification

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUALIZATION; INFORMATION NEED; INTERLEAVED TASK; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LEXICAL FEATURES; LEXICAL LEVEL; LOG DATA; MULTIPLE TASKS; PROBASE; QUERY REFINEMENT; SEARCH INTENTS; SEARCH RESULTS; SEARCH SESSIONS; SEARCH TASKS; SEMANTIC LEVELS; TASK IDENTIFICATION; TIME STAMPS; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES; USER SATISFACTION; WEB SEARCHES;

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84874231980     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2433396.2433410     Document Type: Conference Paper

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