TY - GEN
T1 - SMS-based contextual web search
AU - Chen, Jay
AU - Linn, Brendan
AU - Subramanian, Lakshminarayanan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2009 ACM.
PY - 2009/8/17
Y1 - 2009/8/17
N2 - SMS-based web search is different from traditional web search in that the final response to a search query is limited to a very small number of bytes (typically 1-2 SMS messages, 140 bytes each). SMS-based web search is also a non-interactive search problem where the user has to specify a query and obtain a response in one round of search. Enabling search with with such constraints is challenging. Several search engines have developed SMS-based search capabilities in recent years and many of these search engines are limited in their recognized topics (phone, address, location, weather etc.), involve a human in the loop or apply to only specific types of search queries. We describe a simple generic approach to extracting results for both well-known and arbitrary topics. We have implemented our prototype system SMSFind and demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. While the underlying mechanisms we present are by no means perfect, we show that our system returns appropriate responses for a range of topics not covered by existing systems.
AB - SMS-based web search is different from traditional web search in that the final response to a search query is limited to a very small number of bytes (typically 1-2 SMS messages, 140 bytes each). SMS-based web search is also a non-interactive search problem where the user has to specify a query and obtain a response in one round of search. Enabling search with with such constraints is challenging. Several search engines have developed SMS-based search capabilities in recent years and many of these search engines are limited in their recognized topics (phone, address, location, weather etc.), involve a human in the loop or apply to only specific types of search queries. We describe a simple generic approach to extracting results for both well-known and arbitrary topics. We have implemented our prototype system SMSFind and demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. While the underlying mechanisms we present are by no means perfect, we show that our system returns appropriate responses for a range of topics not covered by existing systems.
KW - Cell phones
KW - Context
KW - SMS
KW - Search
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U2 - 10.1145/1592606.1592611
DO - 10.1145/1592606.1592611
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962478608
T3 - SIGCOMM 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 SIGCOMM Conference and Co-Located Workshops, MobiHeld 2009
SP - 19
EP - 24
BT - SIGCOMM 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 SIGCOMM Conference and Co-Located Workshops, MobiHeld 2009
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 1st ACM Workshop on Networking, Systems, and Applications for Mobile Handhelds, MobiHeld 2009
Y2 - 17 August 2009
ER -