Query Change as a Contextual Markov Model for Simulating User Search Behaviour.

Saber Zerhoudi Michael Granitzer Jörg Schlötterer Christin Seifert

Published in: FIRE (2021)

Keyphrases

markov model
user queries
query formulation
query suggestion
query refinement
return a ranked list
result set
search experience
user intent
search terms

interactive search
search engine
search queries
markov models
retrieval process
initial query
search interface
web search engines
relevance feedback
markov chain

keyword queries
exploratory search
information retrieval systems
search history
query processing
user interaction
hidden markov models
statistical model
web search
keyword search

query logs
search algorithm
search tasks
search space
optimal solution
query expansion
image retrieval
web pages
information retrieval