creators_name: Baraglia, Ranieri creators_name: Cacheda, Fidel creators_name: Carneiro, Victor creators_name: Formoso, Vreixo creators_name: Perego, Raffaele creators_name: Silvestri, Fabrizio type: conference_item datestamp: 2009-04-06 19:12:11 lastmod: 2009-04-14 04:37:10 metadata_visibility: show title: Search Shortcuts: Driving Users Towards Their Goals ispublished: pub full_text_status: public pres_type: poster abstract: Giving suggestions to users of Web-based services is a common practice aimed at enhancing their navigation experience. Major Web Search Engines usually provide Suggestions under the form of queries that are, to some extent, related to the current query typed by the user, and the knowledge learned from the past usage of the system. In this work we introduce Search Shortcuts as “Successful ” queries allowed, in the past, users to satisfy their information needs. Differently from conventional suggestion techniques, our search shortcuts allows to evaluate effectiveness by exploiting a simple train-and-test approach. We have applied several Collaborative Filtering algorithms to this problem, evaluating them on a real query log data. We generate the shortcuts from all user sessions belonging to the testing set, and measure the quality of the shortcuts suggested by considering the similarity between them and the navigational user behavior. date: 2009-04 pagerange: 1073-1073 event_title: 18th International World Wide Web Conference event_location: Madrid, Spain event_dates: April 20th-24th, 2009 event_type: conference refereed: TRUE citation: Baraglia, Ranieri and Cacheda, Fidel and Carneiro, Victor and Formoso, Vreixo and Perego, Raffaele and Silvestri, Fabrizio (2009) Search Shortcuts: Driving Users Towards Their Goals. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference, April 20th-24th, 2009, Madrid, Spain. document_url: http://www2009.eprints.org/117/1/p1073.pdf