Title
Temporal query substitution for ad search
Abstract
Recently, information retrieval researchers have witnessed the increasing interest in query substitution for ad search. Most previous works substitute search queries via content based query similarities, and few of them take the temporal characteristics of queries into consideration. In this extended abstract, we propose a novel temporal similarity measurement for query substitution in ad search task. We firstly extract temporal features, such as burst and periodicity, from query frequency curves and then define the temporal query similarity by integrating these new features with the temporal query frequency distribution. Compared to the traditional temporal similarity measurements such as correlation coefficient, our proposed approach is more effective owing to the explicit extraction of high-level semantic query temporal features for similarity measure. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed similarity measure can make the ads more relevant to user search queries compared to ad search without temporal features.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1571941.1572134
SIGIR
Keywords
Field
DocType
novel temporal similarity measurement,temporal feature,temporal query similarity,query substitution,semantic query temporal feature,temporal characteristic,temporal query frequency distribution,ad search,temporal query substitution,query frequency curve,traditional temporal similarity measurement,information retrieval
Query optimization,Data mining,Information retrieval,Query expansion,Similarity measure,Computer science,Web query classification,Ranking (information retrieval),Semantic query,Spatial query,Concept search
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
4
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wen Zhang11377.15
Jun Yan2179885.25
Shuicheng Yan3197074.15
Ning Liu425315.62
Zheng Chen55019256.89