Context-Aware Query Refinement for Mobile Web Search

Author

Hattori, Shun ; Tezuka, Taro ; Tanaka, Katsumi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Social Informatics, Kyoto Univ.

fYear

2007

fDate

15-19 Jan. 2007

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

15

Abstract

Mobile Web search engines as well as fixed ones become much more important for our Web access in the near future. However, mobile computing environments have troublesome limitations, as compared with traditional desktop computing environments. In order to solve the so-called "mismatched query problem" due to more shortness and ambiguity of mobile users\´ original queries, this paper proposes a novel method for context-aware query refinement based on their current geographic location and real-world contexts which are inferred from the place-names representing the location and the Web as a knowledge database

Keywords

mobile computing; query processing; search engines; Web access; context-aware query refinement; knowledge database; mobile Web search engine; mobile computing environment; Computer interfaces; Databases; Informatics; Information retrieval; Mobile computing; Pervasive computing; Search engines; User interfaces; Weather forecasting; Web search;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applications and the Internet Workshops, 2007. SAINT Workshops 2007. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hiroshima

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2757-4

Electronic_ISBN

0-7695-2757-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAINT-W.2007.35

Filename

4090078