Publication Date

Spring 2015

Degree Type

Master's Project

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Computer Science

First Advisor

Thanh Tran

Second Advisor

Chris Pollett

Third Advisor

Suneuy Kim

Keywords

autosuggest entities solr

Abstract

Autosuggest is an important feature in any search applications. Currently, most applications only suggest a single term based on how frequent that term appears in the indexed documents or how often it is searched upon. These approaches might not provide the most relevant suggestions because users often enter a series of related query terms to answer a question they have in mind. In this project, we implemented the Smart Solr Suggester plugin using a context-based approach that takes into account the relationships among search keywords. In particular, we used the keywords that the user has chosen so far in the search text box as the context to autosuggest their next incomplete keyword. This context-based approach uses the relationships between entities in the graph data that the user is searching on and therefore would provide more meaningful suggestions.

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