Predicting event-relatedness of popular queries
Author
Ghoreishi, Seyyedeh Newsha
Sun, Aixin
Date of Issue
2013Conference Name
International conference on Conference on information & knowledge management (22nd : 2013 : Burlingame, USA)
School
School of Computer Engineering
Research Centre
Centre for Advanced Information Systems
Version
Accepted version
Abstract
Many but not all popular queries are related to ongoing or recent events. In this paper, we identify 20 features including both contextual and temporal features from a small set of search results of a query and predict its event-relatedness. Search results from news and blog search engines are evaluated. Our analysis shows that the number of named entities in search results and their appearances in Wikipedia are among the most discriminating features for query event-relatedness prediction. Our study also shows that contextual features are more effective than temporal features. Evaluated with four classifiers (i.e., Support Vector Machine, Naive Bayes, Multinomial Logistic Regression, and Bayesian Logistic Regression) on two datasets, our experiments show that query event-relatedness can be predicted with high accuracy using the proposed features.
Subject
DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Information systems::Information systems applications
Type
Conference Paper
Rights
© 2013 ACM. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management (CIKM '13), ACM. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2505515.2507853].
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