Award winning web search engine developer,
David Hawking, will speak on "Making the best of poor user queries" at
CSIRO's ANU seminar room in Canberra, 4pm 27 May 2013.
IR and friends
David Hawking (Funnelback)
Making the best of poor user queries
A common cause of user disappointment
with search arises from difficulty in posing an effective
query. Choosing a good query is particularly critical behind the
firewall where SEO is virtually non-existent and where many
useful ranking features are typically missing.
Over the decades, many techniques have been developed which can
assist, either in guiding users to choose better queries or in
improving the queries which are submitted: Query suggestion,
query completion, query correction, query substitution, query
expansion, query shortening, query segmentation, query
translation and query blending.
In this talk I will review the state of the art in automatic
query guidance and query improvement methods which are most
useful in the context of enterprise search and demonstrate their
operation.
CSIRO seminar room, 4-5
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