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A method to formulate queries to search for concrete, practical, or detailed “actions” on the web is proposed. Sometimes, a user can only express a web search query as an abstract action. For example, if the user is a beginner golfer, they may use “to improve golf” as a web search query. The search results for this query are unlikely to contain many pages about concrete actions related to improving golf skills. To obtain more concrete information, more concrete actions must be used as web queries. The proposed method generates tuples of words such as (shanking, stop) and (distance, adjust), that consist of a noun and a verb. The proposed algorithm repeatedly searches for nouns from verbs and verbs from nouns in a bootstrapping manner. The proposed method verifies the usefulness of tuples. To reduce search costs, the proposed method also excludes useless tuples; i.e., tuples that cannot be used to obtain new useful tuples.
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Kitaguchi, Y., Ohshima, H., Tanaka, K. (2014). Query Formulation for Action Search by Bootstrapping. In: Tuamsuk, K., Jatowt, A., Rasmussen, E. (eds) The Emergence of Digital Libraries – Research and Practices. ICADL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8839. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12823-8_46
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