Understanding the brevity of Web queries

The value of brevity.

User Queries on the Web

Table 3: Combined-term Method two measures ciDb and ciDoc for n = 5, 10, 20 and 30. It is shown that the algorithm identiies 85% to 91% of the desired databases and 88% to 95% of the desired documents. As the number of the most similar documents to be retrieved increases, the percentages of desired databases and desired documents also increase. This is not surprising because when n reaches the ...

The Intention Behind Web Queries

The identification of the user’s intention or interest through queries that they submit to a search engine can be very useful to offer them more adequate results. In this work we present a framework for the identification of user’s interest in an automatic way, based on the analysis of query logs. This identification is made from two perspectives, the objectives or goals of a user and the categ...

Context, Compositionality, and Brevity

Because of “arguments from the infinity of language”, compositionality is often seen as a ‘non-negotiable’ feature of any theory of the semantics of natural language. But there are a number of features of “ordinary language discourse” that make it seem that compositionality is not true of natural language semantics. Some of these features are lumped together under the rubric of ‘context’, and i...

Queries over Web Services

Nowadays, technologies such as grid and cloud computing infrastructures and service-oriented architectures have become adequately mature and have been adopted by a large number of enterprizes and organizations [2,19,36]. A Web Service (WS) is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-tomachine interaction over a network and is implemented using open standards and protocols. WS...