Title
Context-aware query classification
Abstract
Understanding users' search intent expressed through their search queries is crucial to Web search and online adver- tisement. Web query classiflcation (QC) has been widely studied for this purpose. Most previous QC algorithms clas- sify individual queries without considering their context in- formation. However, as exemplifled by the well-known ex- ample on query \jaguar", many Web queries are short and ambiguous, whose real meanings are uncertain without the context information. In this paper, we incorporate context information into the problem of query classiflcation by using conditional random fleld (CRF) models. In our approach, we use neighboring queries and their corresponding clicked URLs (Web pages) in search sessions as the context infor- mation. We perform extensive experiments on real world search logs and validate the efiectiveness and e-ciency of our approach. We show that we can improve the F1 score by 52% as compared to other state-of-the-art baselines.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1571941.1571945
SIGIR
Keywords
Field
DocType
web query classification,query classiflcation,search session,web search,search intent,query classification,search query,individual query,search context,context-aware query classification,context information,real world search log,web query,web pages
Conditional random field,Web search query,F1 score,Data mining,Query language,Web page,Semantic search,Query expansion,Information retrieval,Computer science,Web query classification
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
93
2.97
27
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huanhuan Cao195733.09
Derek Hao Hu244320.86
Dou Shen3122459.46
Daxin Jiang4131672.60
Jian-Tao Sun5162974.03
Enhong Chen6123586.93
Qiang Yang717039875.69