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Abstract | ||
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The use of non-English Web search engines has been prevalent. Given the popularity of Chinese Web searching and the unique characteristics of Chinese language, it is imperative to conduct studies with focuses on the analysis of Chinese Web search queries. In this paper, we report our research on the character usage of Chinese search logs from a Web search engine in Hong Kong. By examining the distribution of search query terms, we found that users tended to use more diversified terms and that the usage of characters in search queries was quite different from the character usage of general online information in Chinese. After studying the Zipf distribution of n-grams with different values of n, we found that the curve of unigram is the most curved one of all while the bigram curve follows the Zipf distribution best, and that the curves of n-grams with larger n (n=3-6) had similar structures with @b-values in the range of 0.66-0.86. The distribution of combined n-grams was also studied. All the analyses are performed on the data both before and after the removal of function terms and incomplete terms and similar findings are revealed. We believe the findings from this study have provided some insights into further research in non-English Web searching and will assist in the design of more effective Chinese Web search engines. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2009 | 10.1016/j.ipm.2008.06.005 | Inf. Process. Manage. |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
chinese search log,search query term,chinese web search query,web search engine,effective chinese web search,search query,chinese web,non-english web search engine,character usage,zipf distribution,web mining,chinese | Web search engine,Data mining,Zipf's law,Web search query,World Wide Web,Web mining,Search engine,Semantic search,Information retrieval,Computer science,Popularity,Bigram | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
45 | 1 | Information Processing and Management |
Citations | PageRank | References |
9 | 0.50 | 26 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Chau | 1 | 1471 | 97.79 |
| Yan Lu | 2 | 9 | 0.50 |
| Xiao Fang | 3 | 156 | 10.99 |
| Christopher C. Yang | 4 | 1590 | 138.09 |