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Utilizing User-input Contextual Terms for Query Disambiguation
Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters, COLING ’10 (2010)
  • Byron J. Gao, Texas State University - San Marcos
  • David C. Anastasiu, Texas State University - San Marcos
  • Xing Jiang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Abstract
Precision-oriented search results such as those typically returned by the major search engines are vulnerable to issues of polysemy. When the same term refers to different things, the dominant sense is preferred in the rankings of search results. In this paper, we propose a novel technique in the context of web search that utilizes contextual terms provided by users for query disambiguation, making it possible to prefer other senses without altering the original query.
Publication Date
2010
Editor
Chu-Ren Huang, Dan Jurafsky
Publisher
Coling 2010 Organizing Committee
Citation Information
Byron J. Gao, David C. Anastasiu and Xing Jiang. "Utilizing User-input Contextual Terms for Query Disambiguation" Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Posters, COLING ’10 (2010) p. 329 - 337
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david-anastasiu/10/