BOOSTING ITEM FINDABILITY: BRIDGING THE SEMANTIC GAP BETWEEN SEARCH PHRASES AND ITEM INFORMATION

Hasan Davulcu, Hung V. Nguyen, Viswanathan Ramachandran

2005

Abstract

Most search engines do their text query and retrieval based on keyword phrases. However, publishers cannot anticipate all possible ways in which users search for the items in their documents. In fact, many times, there may be no direct keyword match between a search phrase and descriptions of items that are perfect “hits” for the search. We present a highly automated solution to the problem of bridging the semantic gap between item information and search phrases. Our system can learn rule-based definitions that can be ascribed to search phrases with dynamic connotations by extracting structured item information from product catalogs and by utilizing a frequent itemset mining algorithm. We present experimental results for a realistic e-commerce domain. Also, we compare our rule-mining approach to vector-based relevance feedback retrieval techniques and show that our system yields definitions that are easier to validate and perform better.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Davulcu H., V. Nguyen H. and Ramachandran V. (2005). BOOSTING ITEM FINDABILITY: BRIDGING THE SEMANTIC GAP BETWEEN SEARCH PHRASES AND ITEM INFORMATION . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 48-55. DOI: 10.5220/0002525800480055

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis05,
author={Hasan Davulcu and Hung V. Nguyen and Viswanathan Ramachandran},
title={BOOSTING ITEM FINDABILITY: BRIDGING THE SEMANTIC GAP BETWEEN SEARCH PHRASES AND ITEM INFORMATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={48-55},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002525800480055},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - BOOSTING ITEM FINDABILITY: BRIDGING THE SEMANTIC GAP BETWEEN SEARCH PHRASES AND ITEM INFORMATION
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Davulcu H.
AU - V. Nguyen H.
AU - Ramachandran V.
PY - 2005
SP - 48
EP - 55
DO - 10.5220/0002525800480055