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Automatic identification of user goals in Web search
2005
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web - WWW '05
There have been recent interests in studying the "goal" behind a user's Web query, so that this goal can be used to improve the quality of a search engine's results. Previous studies have mainly focused on using manual query-log investigation to identify Web query goals. In this paper we study whether and how we can automate this goal-identification process. We first present our results from a human subject study that strongly indicate the feasibility of automatic query-goal identification. We
doi:10.1145/1060745.1060804
dblp:conf/www/LeeLC05
fatcat:kxvxh7uwybdqfl5rqreramzdhq