Query classification by leveraging explicit concept information

  • Fang Wang*
  • , Ze Yang
  • , Zhoujun Li
  • , Jianshe Zhou
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A key task in query understanding is interpreting user intentions from the limited words that the user submitted to the search engines. Query classification (QC) has been widely studied for this purpose, which classifies queries into a set of target categories as user search intents. Query classification is an important as well as difficult problem in the field of information retrieval, since the queries are usually short in length, ambiguous and noisy. In this case, traditional “bag-of-words” based classification methods fail to achieve high accuracy in the task of QC. In this paper, we propose to mine explicit “Concept” information to help resolve this problem. Specifically, we first leverage existing knowledge bases to enrich the short query from the concept level. Then we discuss the usage of the mined concept information and propose a novel language model based query classification method which takes both words and concepts into consideration. Experimental results show that the mined concepts are very informative and effective to improve query classification.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvanced Data Mining and Applications - 12th International Conference, ADMA 2016, Proceedings
EditorsJianxin Li, Xue Li, Shuliang Wang, Jinyan Li, Quan Z. Sheng
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages636-650
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783319495859
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event12th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2016 - Gold Coast, Australia
Duration: 12 Dec 201615 Dec 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10086 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2016
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityGold Coast
Period12/12/1615/12/16

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