Providing ranked relevant results for web database queries

Often Web database users experience difficulty in articulating their needs using a precise query. Providing ranked set of possible answers would benefit such users. We propose to provide ranked answers to user queries by identifying a set of queries from the query log whose answers are relevant to the given user query. The relevance detection is done using a domain and end-user independent content similarity estimation technique. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.2.4 [Systems]: Relational databases; H.3.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Query formulation, Retrieval models General Terms Management Keywords content similarity, query suggestion, web-enabled database

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Ullas Nambiar, Subbarao Kambhampati
• Keywords: Internet Technology, Query Formulation, Query Suggestion, User Query, WWW 2004