Title :
Context-Aware Query Refinement for Mobile Web Search
Author :
Hattori, Shun ; Tezuka, Taro ; Tanaka, Katsumi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Social Informatics, Kyoto Univ.
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/SAINT-W.2007.35
