creators_name: Patro, S
creators_name: Malhotra, V
creators_name: Johnson, D
creators_id: spatro@utas.edu.au
creators_id: vishv.malhotra@utas.edu.au
creators_id: 
editors_name: Cordeiro, J
editors_name: Pedrosa, V
editors_name: Encarnacao, B
editors_name: Filipe, J
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2006-06-18
lastmod: 2008-07-18 09:40:53
metadata_visibility: show
title: An Algorithm to use Feedback on Viewed Documents to Improve Web Query: Enabling naive searchers to search the Web smartly
ispublished: pub
subjects: 280100
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: NULL
pres_type: paper
keywords: Web searching, Information need, Boolean query, Relevance feedback.
abstract: This paper presents an algorithm to improve a web search query based on the feedback on the viewed
documents. A user who is searching for information on the Web marks the retrieved (viewed) documents as
relevant or irrelevant to further expose the information needs expressed in the original query. A new web
search query matching this improved understanding of the user's information needs is synthesized from
these text documents. The methodology provides a way for creating web search query that matches the
user's information need even when the user may have difficulty in doing so directly due to lack of
experience in the query design or lack of familiarity of the search domain. A user survey has shown that the
algorithmically formed query has recall coverage and precision characteristics better than those achieved by
the experienced human web searchers.
date: 2006
date_type: published
volume: 1
publisher: INSTICC: Institute for Systems an Technologies of Information, Control and Communication
pagerange: 287-294
event_title: WEBIST 2006: Second International conf on Web Information Systems and Technologies
event_location: Setubal, Portugal
event_dates: April 11-13, 2006
event_type: conference
institution: University of Tasmania
thesis_type: UNSPECIFIED
refereed: TRUE
citation: Patro, S and Malhotra, V and Johnson, D (2006) An Algorithm to use Feedback on Viewed Documents to Improve Web Query: Enabling naive searchers to search the Web smartly. In: WEBIST 2006: Second International conf on Web Information Systems and Technologies, April 11-13, 2006, Setubal, Portugal.
document_url: http://eprints.utas.edu.au/280/1/webist2006.pdf