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Studying query reformulation strategies in search logs

✍ Scribed by Jeff Huang; Efthimis Efthimiadis

Book ID
102514313
Publisher
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
33 KB
Volume
46
Category
Article
ISSN
0044-7870

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✦ Synopsis

Users frequently modify a previous search query in hope of retrieving better results. These modifications are called query reformulations or query refinements. Existing research has studied how web search engines can propose reformulations, but has given less attention to how people perform query reformulations. In this research, we aim to better understand how web searchers refine queries through the analysis of search logs, and form a theoretical foundation for query reformulation. Effectiveness of reformulations is measured by user click behavior.

We study users' reformulation strategies in the context of the AOL search logs [9]. We create a

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