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creators_name: Ceccarelli, Diego
creators_name: Gordea, Sergiu
creators_name: Lucchese, Claudio
creators_name: Nardini, Franco Maria
creators_name: Tolomei, Gabriele
creators_id: diego.ceccarelli@imtlucca.it
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title: Improving Europeana Search Experience Using Query Logs
ispublished: pub
subjects: NX
subjects: QA75
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: none
abstract: Europeana is a long-term project funded by the European Commission with the goal of making Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage accessible to the public. Since 2008, about 1500 institutions have contributed to Europeana, enabling people to explore the digital resources of Europe’s museums, libraries and archives. The huge amount of collected multi-lingual multi-media data is made available today through the Europeana portal, a search engine allowing users to explore such content through textual queries. One of the most important techniques for enhancing users search experience in large information spaces, is the exploitation of the knowledge contained in query logs. In this paper we present a characterization of the Europeana query log, showing statistics on common behavioral patterns of the Europeana users. Our analysis highlights some significative differences between the Europeana query log and the historical data collected by general purpose Web Search Engine logs. In particular, we find out that both query and search session distributions show different behaviors. Finally, we use this information for designing a query recommendation technique having the goal of enhancing the functionality of the Europeana portal.
date: 2011
series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
number: 6966
publisher: Springer
pagerange: 384-395
id_number: 10.1007/978-3-642-24469-8_39
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-3-642-24469-8
issn: 0302-9743
book_title: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24469-8_39
citation:   Ceccarelli, Diego and Gordea, Sergiu and Lucchese, Claudio and Nardini, Franco Maria and Tolomei, Gabriele  Improving Europeana Search Experience Using Query Logs.   In:  Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries.   Lecture Notes in Computer Science  (6966).  Springer, pp. 384-395.  ISBN 978-3-642-24469-8      (2011)