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Identifying Aspects for Web-Search Queries

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Identifying Aspects for Web-Search Queries
Many web-search queries serve as the beginning of an exploration of an unknown space of information, rather than looking for a specific web page. To answer such queries effectively, the search engine should attempt to organize the space of relevant information in a way that facilitates exploration. We describe the Aspector system that computes aspects for a given query. Each aspect is a set of search queries that together represent a distinct information need relevant to the original search query. To serve as an effective means to explore the space, Aspector computes aspects that are orthogonal to each other and to have high combined coverage. Aspector combines two sources of information to compute aspects. We discover candidate aspects by analyzing query logs, and cluster them to eliminate redundancies. We then use a mass-collaboration knowledge base (e.g., Wikipedia) to compute candidate aspects for queries that occur less frequently and to group together aspects that are likely ...
Fei Wu, Jayant Madhavan, Alon Y. Halevy
Added 14 May 2011
Updated 14 May 2011
Type Journal
Year 2011
Where JAIR
Authors Fei Wu, Jayant Madhavan, Alon Y. Halevy
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