Proceedings of the 3rd International Web Science Conference: WebSci '11
ISBN
9781450308557
Event
Web Science 2011
Pages (from-to)
4
Publisher
New York, NY: ACM
Organisations
Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract
We propose and motivate a scheme for classifying queries submitted to a people search engine. We specify a number of features for automatically classifying people queries into the proposed classes and examine the eectiveness of these features. Our main nding is that classication is feasible and that using information from past searches, clickouts and news sources is important
