Detecting Location Intent From Context

Yelp, Inc. Computer Science, 2014-15

Liaison(s): Benjamin Goldenberg ’10, Colin Pollock, Phillip Zukin
Advisor(s): Julie Medero
Students(s): Ethan Kenny (PM-S), Viona Lam (PM-F), Henry Huang, Angela Zhou

Currently a Yelp search is split into two fields: the query and the location. Our goal is to create a prototype that returns more relevant results to the user by better identifying and understanding locational information in the query field. In addition, we outline how our system could be incorporated into Yelp at a national level and ultimately be used to implement a single field search.