Analysis of query reformulations in a search engine of a local web site

Albakour, M-Dyaa; Kruschwitz, Udo; Nanas, Nikolaos; Adeyanju, Ibrahim; Song, Dawei; Fasli, Maria and De Roeck, Anne (2012). Analysis of query reformulations in a search engine of a local web site. In: ECIR 2012, 1-5 Apr 2012, Barcelona, Spain.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28997-2_54

URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/4150k152l27522...

Abstract

This study examines reformulations of queries submitted to a search engine of a university Web site with a focus on (implicitly derived) user satisfaction and the performance of the underlying search engine. Using a search log of a university Web site we examined all reformulations submitted in a 10-week period and studied the relation between the popularity of the reformulation and the performance of the search engine estimated using a number of clickthrough-based measures. Our findings are a step towards building better query recommendation systems and suggest a number of metrics to evaluate query recommendation systems.

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