Title
Knowledge Exploration using Tables on the Web.
Abstract
The increasing popularity of mobile device usage has ushered in many features in modern search engines that help users with various information needs. One of those needs is Knowledge Exploration, where related documents are returned in response to a user query, either directly through right-hand side knowledge panels or indirectly through navigable sections underneath individual search results. Existing knowledge exploration features have relied on a combination of Knowledge Bases and query logs. In this paper, we propose Knowledge Carousels of two modalities, namely sideways and downwards, that facilitate exploration of IS-A and HAS-A relationships, respectively, with regard to an entity-seeking query, based on leveraging the large corpus of tables on the Web. This brings many technical challenges, including associating correct carousels with the search entity, selecting the best carousel from the candidates, and finding titles that best describe the carousel. We describe how we address these challenges and also experimentally demonstrate through user studies that our approach produces better result sets than baseline approaches.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.14778/3021924.3021935
PVLDB
Field
DocType
Volume
Modalities,Web search query,Data mining,World Wide Web,Search engine,Information needs,Computer science,Popularity,Mobile device,User studies,Database
Journal
10
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
2150-8097
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
19
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fernando Seabra Chirigati120516.38
Jialu Liu249760.12
Flip Korn32141380.45
You Wu450.43
Cong Yu5136671.75
Hao Zhang6934.36