@inproceedings{2770240d4eea48069e14683e14435764,
title = "Consento: A consensus search engine for answering subjective queries",
abstract = "Search engines have become an important decision making tool today. Decision making queries are often subjective, such as {"}best sedan for family use,{"} {"}best action movies in 2010,{"} to name a few. Unfortunately, such queries cannot be answered properly by conventional search systems. In order to address this problem, we introduce Consento, a consensus search engine designed to answer subjective queries. Consento performs subdocument-level indexing to more precisely capture semantics from user opinions. We also introduce a new ranking method, or ConsensusRank that counts in online comments referring to an entity as a weighted vote to the entity. We validated the framework with an empirical study using the data on movie reviews. Copyright is held by the author/owner(s).",
keywords = "Consensus search, ConsensusRank, Entity search, Maximal coherent semantic unit, Segment indexing",
author = "Jaehoon Choi and Donghyeon Kim and Seongsoon Kim and Junkyu Lee and Sangrak Lim and Sunwon Lee and Jaewoo Kang",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1145/2187980.2188087",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781450312301",
series = "WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion",
pages = "481--482",
booktitle = "WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion",
note = "21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web, WWW'12 ; Conference date: 16-04-2012 Through 20-04-2012",
}