Learning lexicon models from search logs for query expansion

  • Authors:
  • Jianfeng Gao;Xiaodong He;Shasha Xie;Alnur Ali

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington;Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington;Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey;Microsoft Bing, Bellevue, Washington

  • Venue:
  • EMNLP-CoNLL '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper explores log-based query expansion (QE) models for Web search. Three lexicon models are proposed to bridge the lexical gap between Web documents and user queries. These models are trained on pairs of user queries and titles of clicked documents. Evaluations on a real world data set show that the lexicon models, integrated into a ranker-based QE system, not only significantly improve the document retrieval performance but also outperform two state-of-the-art log-based QE methods.