Improving search engines by query clustering

  • Authors:
  • Ricardo Baeza-Yates;Carlos Hurtado;Marcelo Mendoza

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Web Research, Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Chile;Center for Web Research, Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Chile;Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a framework for clustering Web search engine queries whose aim is to identify groups of queries used to search for similar information on the Web. The framework is based on a novel term vector model of queries that integrates user selections and the content of selected documents extracted from the logs of a search engine. The query representation obtained allows us to treat query clustering similarly to standard document clustering. We study the application of the clustering framework to two problems: relevance ranking boosting and query recommendation. Finally, we evaluate with experiments the effectiveness of our approach. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.