Customized query auto-completion and suggestion - A review

Nowadays, with the widespread use of the internet, users meet their information needs with the help of search engines. Users tend to retrieve the most relevant results by entering short phrases in the search engines. Customizing the retrieved results helps attain this goal. In this study, research works in the fields of query suggestion, particularly query auto-completion have been studied with special attention to customization. First, the sophisticated customizing features were classified into four dimensions: time, location, context, and demographic features. Then, related works were investigated regarding algorithm, dataset and evaluation measures. Regarding the literature, we found that the research works employing context or time as sophisticated features for customization are more than those using location or demographic features. While the location dimension has been recently taken into consideration, using other dimensions has a long background. Moreover, in the related works, the AOL dataset and Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR) are known as the most frequent dataset and evaluation measure, respectively. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.