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NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Query Ambiguity Revisited: Clickthrough Measures for Distinguishing Informational and Ambiguous Queries
Understanding query ambiguity in web search remains an important open problem. In this paper we reexamine query ambiguity by analyzing the result clickthrough data. Previously pro...
Yu Wang, Eugene Agichtein
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Using part-of-speech patterns to reduce query ambiguity
Query ambiguity is a generally recognized problem, particularly in Web environments where queries are commonly only one or two words in length. In this study, we explore one techn...
James Allan, Hema Raghavan
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Identifying ambiguous queries in web search
It is widely believed that some queries submitted to search engines are by nature ambiguous (e.g., java, apple). However, few studies have investigated the questions of "how ...
Ruihua Song, Zhenxiao Luo, Ji-Rong Wen, Yong Yu, H...