Clustering Web Queries
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsJi-Rong Wen, Jian-Yun Nie, Ming-Jing Li, Hong-Jiang Zhang
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Abstract
Systems and methods for clustering Web queries are described. In one aspect, one or more of a same document and a plurality of similar documents selected by a user in response to a plurality of queries is identified. Responsive to this identification, a query cluster is generated. The cleric the query cluster indicates that the queries are similar independent of whether individual ones of the queries comprise similar composition with respect to other ones of the queries.
Claims20
A method at least partially implemented by a computing device for clustering queries, the method comprising:
- identifying a same document and/or a plurality of similar documents selected by a user in response to a plurality of queries;
- and
- responsive to identifying the same document and/or the similar documents, generating a query cluster to indicate that the queries are similar independent of whether individual ones of the queries comprise similar composition with respect to other ones of the queries.
A computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-program instructions that when executed by a processor perform operations of:
- identifying a same document and/or a plurality of similar documents selected by a user in response to a plurality of queries;
- and
- responsive to identifying the same document and/or the similar documents, generating a query cluster to indicate that the queries are similar independent of whether individual ones of the queries comprise similar composition with respect to other ones of the queries.
A computing device comprising:
- a processor coupled to a memory, the memory comprising computer executable instructions, the processor being configured to fetch and execute the computer-executable instructions for:
- identifying a same document and/or a plurality of similar documents selected by a user in response to a plurality of queries;
- and
- responsive to identifying the same document and/or the similar documents, generating a query cluster to indicate that the queries are similar independent of whether individual ones of the queries comprise similar composition with respect to other ones of the queries.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.