An evaluation of entity and frequency based query completion methods

Authors
Publication date 2009
Host editors
  • M. Sanderson
  • C. Zhai
  • J. Zobel
  • J. Allan
  • J.A. Aslam
Book title 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2009), Boston, MA, USA
ISBN
  • 9781605584836
Event 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2009), Boston, MA, USA
Pages (from-to) 678-679
Publisher New York: ACM
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract We present a semantic approach to suggesting query completions which leverages entity and type information. When compared to a frequency-based approach, we show that such information mostly helps rare queries.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1571941.1572074
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