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View all- Wilde EBoll SSchöning J(2010)LocWeb 2010Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Location and the Web10.1145/1899662.1899663(1-3)Online publication date: 29-Nov-2010
What aspects do people search in geo-referenced text?
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Gwan Jang, Keun-Chan Park, Kyung-min Kim, Yoonjae Jeong, Sung-Hyon MyaengAuthors Info & Claims
Gwan Jang, Keun-Chan Park, Kyung-min Kim, Yoonjae Jeong, Sung-Hyon MyaengAuthors Info & ClaimsArticle No.: 4, Pages 1 - 4
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In providing a service to mobile users, it would be critical to know what types of information they would look for in association with geo-referenced entities that may be extractable from queries or contexts. While understanding high-level user intentions in accessing the Web, such as informational, navigational, and transactional, is useful, a finer-level classification of user interests would further help adapting mobile search results to user intensions. Our research focuses on understanding what aspects of geo-referenced entities are mentioned in user queries in an attempt to create a model for user intents in geo-referenced Web searching. By collecting and analyzing geo-referenced questions posed to operational question answering systems, we delineated major aspects of non-topical information that people would seek in association with geographic information. The identified aspects were further conceptualized to develop a user interest model with three dimensions, which was validated with two sets of data. The model can be a basis for identifying user's intent in a mobile search context as well as classifying geo-related text to be retrieved for its aspectual category.
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