Linking queries to entities

I’m happy to announce we’re releasing a new test collection for entity linking for web queries (within user sessions) to Wikipedia. About half of the queries in this dataset are sampled from Yahoo search logs, the other half comes from the TREC Session track. Check out the L24 dataset on Yahoo…
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Learning Semantic Query Suggestions

An important application of semantic web technology is recognizing human-defined concepts in text. Query transformation is a strategy often used in search engines to derive queries that are able to return more useful search results than the original query and most popular search engines provide facilities that let users complete,…
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A Semantic Perspective on Query Log Analysis

We present our views on the CLEF log file analysis task. We argue for a task definition that focuses on the semantic enrichment of query logs. In addition, we discuss how additional information about the context in which queries are being made could further our understanding of users’ information seeking…