In this paper, we define and present a comprehensive classification of user intent for Web searching. The classification consists of three hierarchical levels of informational, na...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink
Search engines today present results that are often oblivious to recent shifts in intent. For example, the meaning of the query `independence day' shifts in early July to a U...
Determining the user intent of Web searches is a difficult problem due to the sparse data available concerning the searcher. In this paper, we examine a method to determine the us...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink
With more and more commercial activities moving onto the Internet, people tend to purchase what they need through Internet or conduct some online research before the actual transac...
Web entities, such as documents and hyperlinks, are created for different purposes, or intents. Existing intent-based retrieval methods largely focus on information seekers’ int...