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V. NGUYEN and Min-Yen KAN
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Functional
Faceted Web Query Classification
Temporal and
Spatial Sensitivity
Should the query results change with respect
to the user’s temporal or spatial context?
nLots of related work; just a sample:
¨Categorizing web queries according to geographical locality (Gravano et al , 2003)
¨Information diffusion through blogspace (Gruhl et al, WWW
‘04)
¨Temporal relation between queries (Chien et al , WWW
‘05)
nActionable strategies:
¨Suggest temporal or spatial modifiers
¨Make users aware of spatially / temporally changing
¨Take locality of users into account
Temporal Examples
nYes
¨“university ranking”,
“u.s. president”
“u.s. president”
nNo
¨“Toyota Canada”,
“gravity forces”
“gravity forces”
Spatial Examples
nYes
¨“transport services”,
“pizza order”
“pizza order”
nNo
¨“email signature”,
“how to run fast”
“how to run fast”