A survey of query auto completion in information retrieval

F Cai, M De Rijke - Foundations and Trends® in Information …, 2016 - nowpublishers.com
In information retrieval, query auto completion (QAC), also known as typeahead [Xiao et al.,
2013, Cai et al., 2014b] and auto-complete suggestion [Jain and Mishne, 2010], refers to the …

Which Diversity Evaluation Measures Are" Good"?

T Sakai, Z Zeng - Proceedings of the 42nd international ACM SIGIR …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
This study evaluates 30 IR evaluation measures or their instances, of which nine are for
adhoc IR and 21 are for diversified IR, primarily from the viewpoint of whether their …

Incorporating explicit subtopics in personalized search

S Wang, Z Dou, J Yao, Y Zhou, JR Wen - Proceedings of the ACM Web …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The key to personalized search is modeling user intents to tailor returned results for different
users. Existing personalized methods mainly focus on learning implicit user interest vectors …

Aggregated search

J Arguello - Foundations and Trends® in Information …, 2017 - nowpublishers.com
The goal of aggregated search is to provide integrated search across multiple
heterogeneous search services in a unified interface—a single query box and a common …

Query intent understanding

Z Dou, J Guo - Query Understanding for Search Engines, 2020 - Springer
Search engines aim at helping users find relevant results from the Web. Understanding the
underlying intent of queries issued to search engines is a critical step toward this goal. Till …

Query intent detection based on clustering of phrase embedding

J Gu, C Feng, X Gao, Y Wang, H Huang - Social Media Processing: 5th …, 2016 - Springer
Understanding ambiguous or multi-faceted search queries is essential for information
retrieval. The task of identifying the major aspects or senses of queries can be viewed as …

[PDF][PDF] Graded relevance

T Sakai - Evaluating Information Retrieval and Access Tasks …, 2021 - library.oapen.org
NTCIR was the first large-scale IR evaluation conference series to construct test collections
with graded relevance assessments: the NTCIR-1 test collections from 1998 already …

Query subtopic diversification based on cluster ranking and semantic features

M Shajalal, MZ Ullah, AN Chy… - … On Advanced Informatics …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Search queries are usually short, ambiguous, and have multiple interpretations. Identifying
possible subtopics is one of the key strategy to disambiguate a search query. In recent …

Query subtopic mining exploiting word embedding for search result diversification

MZ Ullah, M Shajalal, AN Chy, M Aono - Information Retrieval Technology …, 2016 - Springer
Understanding the users' search intents through mining query subtopic is a challenging task
and a prerequisite step for search diversification. This paper proposes mining query …

Coverage-based query subtopic diversification leveraging semantic relevance

M Shajalal, M Aono - Knowledge and Information Systems, 2020 - Springer
Generally, users are reserved in describing their search intention when submitting queries
into the search engine. Therefore, a large number of search queries are usually short …