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Action modeling: language models that predict query behavior
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Abstract
We present a novel language modeling approach to capturing the query reformulation behavior of Web search users. Based on a framework that categorizes eight different types of "user moves" (adding/removing query terms, etc.), we treat search sessions as sequence data and build n-gram language models to capture user behavior. We evaluated our models in a prediction task. The results suggest that useful patterns of activity can be extracted from user histories. Furthermore, by examining prediction performance under different order n-gram models, we gained insight into the amount of history/context that is associated with different types of user actions. Our work serves as the basis for more refined user models.
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768 pages
ISBN:1595933697
DOI:10.1145/1148170
- General Chair:
- Efthimis N. Efthimiadis,
- Program Chairs:
- Susan Dumais,
- David Hawking,
- Kalervo Järvelin,
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