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AnaSearch: Extract, Retrieve and Visualize Structured Results from Unstructured Text for Analytical Queries

  • Tongliang Li
  • , Lei Fang
  • , Jian Guang Lou
  • , Zhoujun Li*
  • , Dongmei Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University
  • Microsoft USA

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Abstract

Modern search engines retrieve results mainly based on the keyword matching techniques, and thus fail to answer analytical queries like "apps with more than 1 billion monthly active users"or "population growth of the US from 2015 to 2019", which requires numerical reasoning or aggregating results from multiple web pages. Such analytical queries are very common in the data analysis area, the expected results would be structured tables or charts. In most cases, these structured results are not available or accessible, they scatter in various text sources. In this work, we build AnaSearch, a search system to support analytical queries, and return structured results that can be visualized in the form of tables or charts. We collect and build structured quantitative data from the unstructured text on the web automatically. With AnaSearch, data analysts could easily derive insights for decision making with keyword or natural language queries. Specifically, we build AnaSearch under the COVID-19 news data, which makes it easy to compare with manually collected structured data.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWSDM 2021 - Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages906-909
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450382977
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Aug 2021
Event14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2021 - Virtual, Online, Israel
Duration: 8 Mar 202112 Mar 2021

Publication series

NameWSDM 2021 - Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Conference

Conference14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2021
Country/TerritoryIsrael
CityVirtual, Online
Period8/03/2112/03/21

Keywords

  • data visualization
  • information retrieval
  • quantitative information
  • structured data

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