A language modeling approach to information retrieval
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Patterns of search: analyzing and modeling Web query refinement
UM '99 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on User modeling
Analysis of a very large web search engine query log
ACM SIGIR Forum
Placing search in context: the concept revisited
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Optimizing search engines using clickthrough data
Proceedings of the eighth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
ACM SIGIR Forum
Building a large annotated corpus of English: the penn treebank
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on using large corpora: II
A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to information retrieval
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Challenges in enterprise search
ADC '04 Proceedings of the 15th Australasian database conference - Volume 27
A Markov random field model for term dependencies
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Generating query substitutions
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
InfoScale '06 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Scalable information systems
Improving web search ranking by incorporating user behavior information
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Learning a spelling error model from search query logs
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Evaluating the accuracy of implicit feedback from clicks and query reformulations in Web search
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
A study of Poisson query generation model for information retrieval
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Understanding the relationship of information need specificity to search query length
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Entropy of search logs: how hard is search? with personalization? with backoff?
WSDM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
Unsupervised query segmentation using generative language models and wikipedia
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Effective and efficient user interaction for long queries
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A user browsing model to predict search engine click data from past observations.
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A unified and discriminative model for query refinement
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Retrieval models for question and answer archives
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Discovering key concepts in verbose queries
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Analyzing web text association to disambiguate abbreviation in queries
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
How does clickthrough data reflect retrieval quality?
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Understanding the relationship between searchers' queries and information goals
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Query suggestion using hitting time
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Mining term association patterns from search logs for effective query reformulation
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Beyond the session timeout: automatic hierarchical segmentation of search topics in query logs
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Learning latent semantic relations from clickthrough data for query suggestion
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Learning Semantic Query Suggestions
ISWC '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference
Faceted exploration of image search results
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Evaluating verbose query processing techniques
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Exploring reductions for long web queries
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
An analysis of queries intended to search information for children
Proceedings of the third symposium on Information interaction in context
Improving verbose queries using subset distribution
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Structural annotation of search queries using pseudo-relevance feedback
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
CLEF'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation: cross-language evaluation forum
Investigating variation in querying behavior for image searches on the web
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Managing misspelled queries in IR applications
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Joint annotation of search queries
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies - Volume 1
HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: short papers - Volume 2
Tossing coins to trim long queries
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Empirical Study on Rare Query Characteristics
WI-IAT '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
Discovering missing click-through query language information for web search
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Mapping queries to the Linking Open Data cloud: A case study using DBpedia
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Rewriting null e-commerce queries to recommend products
Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web
Dialogue: driven information retrieval
FDIA'09 Proceedings of the Third BCS-IRSG conference on Future Directions in Information Access
Interactive search support for difficult web queries
ECIR'12 Proceedings of the 34th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
When web search fails, searchers become askers: understanding the transition
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
An analysis of free-text queries for a multi-field web form
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
Supporting factual statements with evidence from the web
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Sentence length bias in TREC novelty track judgements
Proceedings of the Seventeenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium
Personalizing atypical web search sessions
Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
Predicting the impact of expansion terms using semantic and user interaction features
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management
Mining search and browse logs for web search: A Survey
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) - Survey papers, special sections on the semantic adaptive social web, intelligent systems for health informatics, regular papers
Detecting verbose queries and improving information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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We propose to use the search log to study long queries, in order to understand the types of information needs that are behind them, and to design techniques to improve search effectiveness when they are used. Long queries arise in many different applications, such as CQA (community-based question answering) and literature search, and they have been studied to some extent using TREC data. They are also, however, quite common in web search, as can be seen by looking at the distribution of query lengths in a large scale search log. In this paper we analyze the long queries in the search log with the aim of identifying the characteristics of the most commonly occurring types of queries, and the issues involved with using them effectively in a search engine. In addition, we propose a simple yet effective method for evaluating the performance of the queries in the search log using a combination of the click data in the search log with the existing TREC corpora.