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V. NGUYEN and Min-Yen KAN
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Functional
Faceted Web Query Classification
Ambiguity
nModeled
after a library agent’s
interpretation of ambiguity
(Stojanovic, 2005)
nActionable
strategies:
¨Disambiguation / Categorization
¨Suggest modifiers for general
queries
Examples:
nPolysemous: contain many
senses
¨“mustang”
nGeneral: cover multiple sub-categories
¨“health”, “travel”
nSpecific: address a coherent
set of relevant information
¨“apple iphone”