A novice search
engine user may find searching the Web for information difficult and
frustrating because she may naturally express search goals rather
than the topic keywords search engines need. GOOSE (goal-oriented
search engine interface) is an adaptive search engine interface that
uses natural language processing to parse a user’s search goal, and
uses "common
sense" reasoning to interpret this goal, and reason from it an
effective query.
For example, if a user tells the search engine: "I want to find
other people who like old movies," GOOSE would reason that old
movies is a hobby that someone might have, and that people talk
about their hobbies on their webpage. GOOSE would construct a query
which targets the retrieval of someone's web page, as follows: +"my
homepage" +"interests" +"old movies".
While we cannot be assured of the robustness of the commonsense
inference, in a substantial number of cases, GOOSE is more likely to
satisfy the user's original search goals than simple keywords or
conventional query.
