Query-Free News Search

Content Free Clustering for Search Engine Query Log

Web query clustering is widely used by web information systems. In this paper we present a new content free method for web query log clustering. Query clustering has many applications including page ranking in web search, personalizing search result and web query expansion. In our approach, we first construct a bipartite graph for queries and visited URLs of a query log. Most of the clusters of...

Explicit Suggestion of Query Terms for News Search Using Topic Models and Word Embeddings

This report presents a study on assisting users in building queries to perform real-time searches in a news and social media monitoring system. The system accepts complex queries, and we assist the user by suggesting related keywords or entities. We do this by leveraging two different word representations: (1) probabilistic topic models, and (2) unsupervised word embeddings. We compare the vect...

News trends and web search query of HIV/AIDS in Hong Kong

BACKGROUND The HIV epidemic in Hong Kong has worsened in recent years, with major contributions from high-risk subgroup of men who have sex with men (MSM). Internet use is prevalent among the majority of the local population, where they sought health information online. This study examines the impacts of HIV/AIDS and MSM news coverage on web search query in Hong Kong. METHODS Relevant news co...

Improved Query Suggestion by Query Search

At the Web Intelligence conference in 2009, Jiang, Zilles, and Holte introduced a novel approach to query suggestion based on query search (QSQS), as well as a system-centered evaluation method. For each potentially relevant document, QSQS creates a complex query—called a lexical alias for the document— that ranks the document in its top 20. A technique called Query Search then builds query sug...

QUINN: Query Updates for News Monitoring