Megha R. Sisode and Ujwala M. Patil, R. C. Patel Institute of Technology, India

Recently, growth of internet has been increased for information retrieval though it is difficult to extract the relevant information in less time. Search engine sometime fails to understand user search intend. Query recommendation can be used to help user to state exactly their information need. Search engine can return appropriate result to meet users’ information needs. There are various methods based on history of users and snippets to retrieve the information. But these methods fail to satisfy users need. Therefore in addition of history and snippets with synonyms will do better. Moreover user preferences can be used to build the user profile which will help in effective recommendations. Here for given query recommendation the synonyms are extracted on line. Synonym based method ranks the clicked URLs at the top of the result based on user profile. The performance of the system shows that the synonym based approach give better and effective recommendation for all queries as compared to previous methods.

query recommendation, synonym, snippets, information retrieval, user profile