TY - GEN
T1 - Improving web search results for homonyms by suggesting completions from an ontology
AU - Tian, Tian
AU - Geller, James
AU - Chun, Soon Ae
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The terms that users pass to search engines are often ambiguous, by referring to homonyms. The search results in these cases are a mixture of links to documents that refer to different meanings of the search terms. Current search engines provide suggested query completion terms as a dropdown list. However, such lists are not well organized, mixing completions for different meanings. In addition, the suggested search phrases are not discriminating enough. We propose an approach to suggesting well organized and visually separated search completions based on ontologies. In addition, our approach supports the use of negative terms to disambiguate the suggested completions in the list. We present an algorithm to generate the suggested search completion terms. We have developed musician and basketball player ontologies and an Ontology-Supported Web Search (OSWS) System for "famous people" that generates the suggested search term completions, based on these ontologies.
AB - The terms that users pass to search engines are often ambiguous, by referring to homonyms. The search results in these cases are a mixture of links to documents that refer to different meanings of the search terms. Current search engines provide suggested query completion terms as a dropdown list. However, such lists are not well organized, mixing completions for different meanings. In addition, the suggested search phrases are not discriminating enough. We propose an approach to suggesting well organized and visually separated search completions based on ontologies. In addition, our approach supports the use of negative terms to disambiguate the suggested completions in the list. We present an algorithm to generate the suggested search completion terms. We have developed musician and basketball player ontologies and an Ontology-Supported Web Search (OSWS) System for "famous people" that generates the suggested search term completions, based on these ontologies.
KW - Ontology-supported Web search
KW - homonyms
KW - negative search terms
KW - semantic search methods
KW - suggested completions
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-16985-4_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-16985-4_16
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649863942
SN - 3642169848
SN - 9783642169847
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 175
EP - 186
BT - Current Trends in Web Engineering - 10th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2010 Workshops, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - 10th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2010
Y2 - 5 July 2010 through 9 July 2010
ER -