Mining query subtopics from search log data

SIGIR'12 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 305-314

  Hu, Yunhua ^a   Qian, Yanan ^b   Li, Hang ^a   Jiang, Daxin ^a   Pei, Jian ^c   Zheng, Qinghua ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

clustering; query subtopics; search log mining; search result clustering; user behavior

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; LOG MINING; QUERY SUBTOPICS; SEARCH RESULTS; USER BEHAVIORS;

CLARIFIERS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; WEBSITES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84866603046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2348283.2348327     Document Type: Conference Paper

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