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Title:
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USAGE OF CONTEXT IN PERSONAL QUERIES |
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Author(s):
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Indra Seher |
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ISBN:
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972-8924-16-X |
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Editors:
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Pedro Isaías, Maggie McPherson and Frank Bannister |
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Year:
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2006 |
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Edition:
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2 |
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Keywords:
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Question Answering Systems, Context model, Query Expansion. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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266 |
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Last Page:
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270 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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When humans communicate, queries made by one human do not completely describe the requirements of the human most
of the times. But, still the other human involved in the communication can understand the messages better, if they share
the same context and therefore know the intended meanings of terms used and the preferences of each other. This will
have a great impact in information retrieval systems, where the user query is more personal. Personal queries can be
understood better by a system, if the system knows the user and user preferences and could use this information to
process user query, producing more relevant and useful results to the user. Further, personal queries could contain user
preferences specified indirectly and could also be incomplete. If an automated system can identify these indirectly
specified preferences and incomplete and missing information necessary for processing in the query, and if it could keep
or capture and use contextual information related to the query, then it could expand the query with incomplete
information and other useful user preferences related to the query, before processing it. This paper is based on a research
related to these factors, understanding user request better by identifying intended meaning of terms in the query, and
expanding user query using contextual information. |
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