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Understanding Information Needs

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Part of the The Information Retrieval Series book series (INRE,volume 39)

Abstract

Understanding what the user is looking for is at the heart of delivering a quality search experience. The focus of this chapter is on obtaining semantically enriched representations of search queries with the help of knowledge repositories. Specifically, we (1) identify the types or categories of entities that are targeted by the query, (2) recognize specific entity mentions in queries and annotate them with unique identifiers from the underlying knowledge repository, and (3) automatically generate query templates from a search log, which then can provide structured interpretations of queries.

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