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location obtained from the IP address and the nature of the search query issued by the user.
In our work, we do not take the location of the user into consideration, since it may not be
very accurate in predicting the intent of the user.
Hassan et al. (2009) focused their work on establishing a relationship between the geo-
graphic information of the user and the query issued. They examined millions of web
search queries to predict the news intent of the user, taking into account the query location
condence, location type of the geo-reference in the query, and the population density
of the user location. But they did not consider the inuence of the time at which the user
issued the query, which ...