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Ontology-driven word recommendation for mobile Web search

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2014

Daniel Aréchiga
Affiliation:
Southern Universitary Center, University of Guadalajara, Av. Enrique Arreola Silva 883, Ciudad Guzmán, Jalisco, CP 49000, México; e-mail: vdaniel@cusur.udg.mx
Fabio Crestani
Affiliation:
Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano, Stabile Informatica, Via Buffi 13, 6904Lugano, Switzerland; e-mail: fabio.crestani@lu.unisi.ch
Jesús Vegas
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Valladolid, Camino al Cementerio s/n, 47011 Valladolid, Spain; e-mail: jvegas@infor.uva.es
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Abstract

The Web search has special characteristics against the desktop search when realized from mobile devices. To establish an improvement within this paradigm, an option is to take into account the context from which the search is developed. To conceptualize the mobile context, we propose the use of ontologies, which will include the device characteristics, environmental conditions and user preferences, among other term conceptualizations. This context definition would be used to determinate the behavior of a word recommendation when searching from mobile devices. As an essential process of creating this context ontology, we have made a real user's evaluation of the ontology terms by means of a survey. This paper shows a brief introduction to the project and focuses mainly on the results obtained in this concept's evaluation.

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Figure 1 Word recommendation system

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Table 1 Ontologies evaluation different approaches and levels

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Figure 2 Mobile Internet usage percentage

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Table 2 Device and Network Characteristics group of concepts analysis

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Figure 3 Device and network characteristic group of concepts graph

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Table 3 User preferences concepts group of concepts analysis

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Figure 4 (a) User preferences and (b) Physical situation groups of concepts graph

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Table 4 Physical situation concepts group of concepts analysis

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Table 5 Temporal Conditions and Circumstances concepts group of concepts analysis

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Figure 5 (a) Temporal Conditions, (b) Environmental Conditions and (c) User Movement Characteristics groups of concepts graph

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Table 6 Environmental Conditions and Circumstances concepts group of concepts analysis

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Table 7 User Movement Characteristics concepts group of concepts analysis

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Figure 6 Survey's results graph by groups of concepts