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7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06)
p. 77
Query Modification Based on Real-World Contexts for Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Environments
Shun Hattori, Kyoto University, Japan
Taro Tezuka, Kyoto University, Japan
Katsumi Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan
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With the growing amount of information on the WWW
and the improvement of mobile computing environments,
mobile Web search engines will increase significance or
more in the future. Because mobile devices have the restriction
of output performance and we have little time for
browsing information slowly while moving or doing some
activities in the real world, it is necessary to refine the retrieval
results in mobile computing environments better than
in fixed ones. However, since a mobile user’s query is often
shorter and more ambiguous than a fixed user’s query
which is not enough to guess his/her information demand
accurately, too many results might be retrieved by commonly
used Web search engines. This paper proposes two
novel methods for query modification based on real-world
contexts of a mobile user, such as his/her geographic location
and the objects surrounding him/her, aiming to enhance
location-awareness, and moreover, context-awareness, to
the existing location-free information retrieval systems.
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Citation:
Shun Hattori, Taro Tezuka, Katsumi Tanaka,
"Query Modification Based on Real-World Contexts for Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Environments,"
mdm,
p. 77,
7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06),
2006
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