CORE - A Context-based Approach for Rewriting User Queries

Antonio Mendonça, Paulo Maciel, Damires Souza, Ana Carolina Salgado

2015

Abstract

When users access data-oriented applications, they aim to obtain useful information. Sometimes, however, the user needs to reformulate the submitted queries several times and go through many answers until a satisfactory set of answers is achieved. In this scenario, the user may be in different contexts, and these contexts may change frequently. For instance, the place where the user submits a given query may be taken into account and thereby may change the query itself and its results. In this work, we address the issue of personalizing query answers in data-oriented applications considering the context acquired at query submission time. To this end, we propose a query rewriting approach, which makes use of context-based rules to produce new related expanded or relaxed queries. In this paper, we present our approach and some experimental results we have accomplished. These results show that, by considering the acquired user context, it really enhances the precision and recall of the obtained answers.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mendonça A., Maciel P., Souza D. and Salgado A. (2015). CORE - A Context-based Approach for Rewriting User Queries . In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-096-3, pages 391-398. DOI: 10.5220/0005466503910398

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis15,
author={Antonio Mendonça and Paulo Maciel and Damires Souza and Ana Carolina Salgado},
title={CORE - A Context-based Approach for Rewriting User Queries},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2015},
pages={391-398},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005466503910398},
isbn={978-989-758-096-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - CORE - A Context-based Approach for Rewriting User Queries
SN - 978-989-758-096-3
AU - Mendonça A.
AU - Maciel P.
AU - Souza D.
AU - Salgado A.
PY - 2015
SP - 391
EP - 398
DO - 10.5220/0005466503910398