Published January 1, 2016 | Version v1
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New query suggestion framework and algorithms: A case study for an educational search engine

  • 1. Turgut Ozal Univ, Dept Comp Engn, Gazze Cd 7, Etlik Kecioren Ankara, Turkey

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Query suggestion is generally an integrated part of web search engines. In this study, we first redefine and reduce the query suggestion problem as "comparison of queries". We then propose a general modular framework for query suggestion algorithm development. We also develop new query suggestion algorithms which are used in our proposed framework, exploiting query, session and user features. As a case study, we use query logs of a real educational search engine that targets K-12 students in Turkey. We also exploit educational features (course, grade) in our query suggestion algorithms. We test our framework and algorithms over a set of queries by an experiment and demonstrate a 66-90% statistically significant increase in relevance of query suggestions compared to a baseline method. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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