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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 31 No. 2, pp. 491-508


Constructing Query Context Knowledge Bases for Relevant Term Suggestion


ENQ-HAUR WANG AND MENG-HAN SHIH 
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering 
National Taipei University of Technology 
Taipei, 106 Taiwan 
E-mail: jhwang@csie.ntut.edu.tw; ab760404@hotmail.com


    Users are often not good at formulating queries that express their information needs. Since user queries are usually very short, it’s helpful if relevant terms could be suggested. However, huge amount of query logs are usually needed to give useful suggestions. To improve query formulation and retrieval effectiveness in the absence of query logs, we propose to construct query context knowledge bases for relevant term suggestion based on pseudo relevance feedback from Web resources. Given a query, frequently co-occurring terms are first obtained from various search results such as blogs, news, and keyterms, and term candidates are extracted. Then, the contextual relevance of candidate terms is estimated by mutual information and Web n-gram language model. Finally, top-ranked terms of higher correlation with the query are selected. Experimental results show a high percentage of the most relevant terms can be suggested for single-word popular queries in top ranks.


Keywords: query context, term suggestion, pseudo relevance feedback, mutual information, search result mining, Web n-gram model

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