NDLI: Understanding Intrinsic Diversity in Web Search: Improving Whole-Session Relevance

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Collins-thompson, Kevyn Bennett, Paul N. Raman, Karthik
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	Current research on Web search has focused on optimizing and evaluating single queries. However, a significant fraction of user queries are part of more complex tasks [Jones and Klinkner 2008] which span multiple queries across one or more search sessions [Liu and Belkin 2010; Kotov et al. 2011]. An ideal search engine would not only retrieve relevant results for a user's particular query but also be able to identify when the user is engaged in a more complex task and aid the user in completing that task [Morris et al. 2008; Agichtein et al. 2012]. Toward optimizing whole-session or task relevance, we characterize and address the problem of intrinsic diversity (ID) in retrieval [Radlinski et al. 2009], a type of complex task that requires multiple interactions with current search engines. Unlike existing work on extrinsic diversity [Carbonell and Goldstein 1998; Zhai et al. 2003; Chen and Karger 2006] that deals with ambiguity in intent across multiple users, ID queries often have little ambiguity in intent but seek content covering a variety of aspects on a shared theme. In such scenarios, the underlying needs are typically exploratory, comparative, or breadth-oriented in nature. We identify and address three key problems for ID retrieval: identifying authentic examples of ID tasks from post-hoc analysis of behavioral signals in search logs; learning to identify initiator queries that mark the start of an ID search task; and given an initiator query, predicting which content to prefetch and rank.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	45
Page Count	45
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10468188
e-ISSN	15582868
DOI	10.1145/2629553
Volume Number	32
Issue Number	4
Journal	ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2014-10-28
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Search session analysis Diversity Proactive search Search behavior
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science Applications Information Systems Business, Management and Accounting

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