Automatic Reformulation of Children's Search Queries

Kalsbeek van, Maarten and Wit de, Joost and Trieschnigg, Dolf and Vet van der, Paul and Huibers, Theo and Hiemstra, Djoerd (2010) Automatic Reformulation of Children's Search Queries. [Report]

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Abstract:	The number of children that have access to an Internet connection (at home or at school) is large and growing fast. Many of these children search the web by using a search engine. These search engines do not consider their skills and preferences however, which makes searching difficult. This paper tries to uncover methods and techniques that can be used to automatically improve search results on queries formulated by children. In order to achieve this, a prototype of a query expander is built that implements several of these techniques. The paper concludes with an evaluation of the prototype and a discussion of the promising results.
Item Type:	Report
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Databases (DB) Human Media Interaction (HMI)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/72110
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