Stratified analysis of AOL query log

Characterizing user's intent and behaviour while using a retrieval information tool (e.g a search engine) is a key question on web research, as it hold the keys to know how the users interact, what they are expecting and how we can provide them information in the most bene cial way. Previous re...

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Autores: Brenes Martínez, David José, Gayo Avello, Daniel|||0000-0002-4705-6891
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI)
Repositorio:RUO. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Oviedo
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:digibuo.uniovi.es:10651/8385
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10651/8385
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2009.01.027
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Query log analysis
User behaviour
User interactions
User intent
User profiling
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Sumario:Characterizing user's intent and behaviour while using a retrieval information tool (e.g a search engine) is a key question on web research, as it hold the keys to know how the users interact, what they are expecting and how we can provide them information in the most bene cial way. Previous research has focused on identifying the average characteristics of user interactions. This paper proposes a strati ed method for analyzing query logs that groups queries and sessions according to their hit frequency and analyzes the characteristics of each group in order to nd how representative the average values are. Findings show that behaviours typically associated with the average user do not t in most of the aforementioned groups.