An Editable Browser for Reranking Web Search Results

Abstract

This paper proposes methods of reranking Web search results according to user's editing operations while browsing the search results. It is difficult for search engines to rank search results which satisfy the user's search intention adequately because the user's Web search intentions are diverse. Hence, the user must check search results sequentially, or re-search creating a new query. In order to solve this problem, we introduce editing operations such as deletion and emphasis for searched results. When the user deletes a part of the search results, our system degrades search results which include the deleted term or sentence. When the user emphasizes a part of the search results, our system upgrades search results which include the emphasized term or sentence. We describe the implementations of these reranking methods and provide evaluations.