Title
Place Questions and Human-Generated Answers - A Data Analysis Approach.
Abstract
This paper investigates place-related questions submitted to search systems and their human-generated answers. Place-based search is motivated by the need to identify places matching some criteria, to identify them in space or relative to other places, or to characterize the qualities of such places. Human place-related questions have thus far been insufficiently studied and differ strongly from typical keyword queries. They thus challenge today's search engines providing only rudimentary geographic information retrieval support. We undertake an analysis of the patterns in place-based questions using a large-scale dataset of questions/answers, MSMARCOV2.1. The results of this study reveal patterns that can inform the design of conversational search systems and in-situ assistance systems, such as autonomous vehicles.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/978-3-030-14745-7_1
Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
Keywords
Field
DocType
Geographic information retrieval,Geographic questions,Question answering systems,Web search queries,Query classification
Search engine,Information retrieval,Computer science,Web query classification,Geographic information retrieval,Conversational search
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1863-2246
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ehsan Hamzei101.01
Haonan Li201.35
Maria Vasardani311715.67
Timothy Baldwin423935.56
Stephan Winter564345.20
Martin Tomko618121.96