Title
The role of query sessions in extracting instance attributes from web search queries
Abstract
Per-instance attributes are acquired using a weakly supervised extraction method which exploits anonymized Web-search query sessions, as an alternative to isolated, individual queries. Examples of these attributes are top speed for chevrolet corvette, or population density for brazil). Inherent challenges associated with using sessions for attribute extraction, such as a large majority of within-session queries not being related to attributes, are overcome by using attributes globally extracted from isolated queries as an unsupervised filtering mechanism. In a head-to-head qualitative comparison, the ranked lists of attributes generated by merging attributes extracted from query sessions, on one hand, and from isolated queries, on another hand, are about 12% more accurate on average, than the attributes extracted from isolated queries by a previous method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-12275-0_9
ECIR
Keywords
Field
DocType
isolated query,attribute extraction,query session,previous method,weakly supervised extraction method,web search query,head-to-head qualitative comparison,chevrolet corvette,individual query,per-instance attribute,web-search query session,population density
Data mining,Information retrieval,Ranking,Computer science,Filter (signal processing),Exploit,Merge (version control)
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
5993
0302-9743
3-642-12274-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.47
37
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marius Paşca199554.93
Enrique Alfonseca2103366.61
Enrique Robledo-Arnuncio3444.02
Ricardo Martin-Brualla41338.12
Keith B. Hall573440.73