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2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Analysis of Query Reformulations in a Search Engine of a Local Web Site
Authors : M-Dyaa Albakour, Udo Kruschwitz, Nikolaos Nanas, Ibrahim Adeyanju, Dawei Song, Maria Fasli, Anne De Roeck
Published in: Advances in Information Retrieval
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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This study examines reformulations of queries submitted to a search engine of a university Web site with a focus on (implicitly derived) user satisfaction and the performance of the underlying search engine. Using a search log of a university Web site we examined all reformulations submitted in a 10-week period and studied the relation between the popularity of the reformulation and the performance of the search engine estimated using a number of clickthrough-based measures. Our findings are a step towards building better query recommendation systems and suggest a number of metrics to evaluate query recommendation systems.