Title
Query aspects approach to web search.
Abstract
This paper introduces an aspect based model for analysing search queries, where queries are represented as aspects or concepts instead of "bag of words" or strings. A search query may consist of multiple aspects, while some aspects are covered well in the search results and some others are underrepresented. We think the underrepresented aspects are the main reason for the retrieval of irrelevant documents. This paper introduces novel algorithms that identify query aspects and identify underrepresented aspects. This model has many applications and this paper focuses on three of them: query difficulty prediction, query expansion and interactive query expansion. The main idea is that a hard query is a query with multiple aspects and some of the aspects are underrepresented, and a query can be improved or expanded by adding terms that are semantically related to the underrepresented aspects. Our experiments show that our aspect based methods significantly outperform existing methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.3233/WEB-160338
WEB INTELLIGENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Query aspect,query difficulty,query expansion,search engine
Query optimization,Information retrieval,Query expansion,Semantic search,Computer science,Sargable,Web query classification,Ranking (information retrieval),Web crawler,Concept search
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
3
2405-6456
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel Crabtree1654.39
Xiaoying Gao222032.95
Peter Andreae35012.51