Organizing User Search Histories

• Main Authors: HWANG, Heasoo, LAUW, Hady W., GETOOR, Lise, NTOULAS, Alexandros
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: User history; search history; query clustering; query reformulation; click graph; task identification.; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1548; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2547/viewcontent/tkde12a.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Users are increasingly pursuing complex task-oriented goals on the web, such as making travel arrangements, managing finances, or planning purchases. To this end, they usually break down the tasks into a few codependent steps and issue multiple queries around these steps repeatedly over long periods...