Integration of news content into web results

Aggregated search refers to the integration of content from specialized corpora or verticals into web search results. Aggregation improves search when the user has vertical intent but may not be aware of or desire vertical search. In this paper, we address the issue of integrating search results from a news vertical into web search results. News is particularly challenging because, given a query, the appropriate decision—to integrate news content or not—changes with time. Our system adapts to news intent in two ways. First, by inspecting the dynamics of the news collection and query volume, we can track development of and interest in topics. Second, by using click feedback, we can quickly recover from system errors. We define several click-based metrics which allow a system to be monitored and tuned without annotator effort. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.5 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Online Information Services—Web-based services General Terms Algorithms Keyw...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: WSDM
• Authors: Fernando Diaz
• Keywords: Aggregation Improves Search, Data Mining, Search Refers, Vertical Search, Wsdm 2009