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A novel two-box search paradigm for query disambiguation
World Wide Web (2013)
  • David C. Anastasiu, Texas State University - San Marcos
  • Byron J. Gao, Texas State University - San Marcos
  • Xing Jiang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • George Karypis, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
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 two-box 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. A prototype system, Bobo, has been implemented. In Bobo, contextual terms are used to capture domain knowledge from users, help estimate relevance of search results, and route them towards a user-intended domain. A vast advantage of Bobo is that a wide range of domain knowledge can be effectively utilized, where helpful contextual terms do not even need to co-occur with query terms on any page. We have extensively evaluated the performance of Bobo on benchmark datasets that demonstrates the utility and effectiveness of our approach.
Keywords
  • two-box search,
  • query disambiguation,
  • domain knowledge,
  • web search
Disciplines
Publication Date
January, 2013
DOI
10.1007/s11280-011-0154-0
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Citation Information
David C. Anastasiu, Byron J. Gao, Xing Jiang and George Karypis. "A novel two-box search paradigm for query disambiguation" World Wide Web Vol. 16 Iss. 1 (2013) p. 1 - 29 ISSN: 1573-1413
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david-anastasiu/2/