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Anticipatory search: using context to initiate search

Published: 12 August 2012 Publication History

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Identifying content for which a user may search has a variety of applications, including ranking and recommendation. In this poster, we examine how pre-search context can be used to predict content that the user will seek before they have even specified a search query. We call this anticipatory search. Using a log-based approach, we compare different methods for predicting the content to be searched using different attributes of the pre-query context and behavioral signals from previous visitors to the most recent browse URL. Each method covers different cases and shows promise for query-free anticipatory search on the Web.

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SIGIR '12: Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
August 2012
1236 pages
ISBN:9781450314725
DOI:10.1145/2348283

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Published: 12 August 2012

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  1. anticipatory search
  2. pre-search context
  3. web search

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