relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1457/ title: When entities meet query recommender systems: semantic search shortcuts creator: Ceccarelli, Diego creator: Gordea, Sergiu creator: Lucchese, Claudio creator: Nardini, Franco Maria creator: Perego, Raffaele subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science description: The Web of Data is growing in popularity and dimension, and entities are gaining importance in many research fields. In this paper, we explore the use of entities that can be extracted from a query log to enhance query recommendation. In particular, we use a large query log recorded by the Europeana portal, a central access point to the descriptions of more than 20 million cultural heritage objects, and we extend a state-of-the-art query recommendation algorithm to take into account the semantic information associated with the submitted queries. Our novel method generates highly related and diversified suggestions. We assess it by means of a new evaluation technique. The manually annotated dataset used for performance comparisons has been made available to the research community to favor the repeatability of the experiments. publisher: ACM date: 2013 type: Book Section type: PeerReviewed identifier: Ceccarelli, Diego and Gordea, Sergiu and Lucchese, Claudio and Nardini, Franco Maria and Perego, Raffaele When entities meet query recommender systems: semantic search shortcuts. In: Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM symposium on applied computing. ACM, pp. 933-938. ISBN 978-1-4503-1656-9 (2013) relation: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2480362.2480540 relation: 10.1145/2480362.2480540