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Learning to cluster web search results

  • Hua-Jun Zeng
  • , Qi-Cai He
  • , Zheng Chen
  • , Wei-Ying Ma
  • , Jinwen Ma

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

Abstract

Organizing Web search results into clusters facilitates users' quick browsing through search results. Traditional clustering techniques are inadequate since they don't generate clusters with highly readable names. In this paper, we reformalize the clustering problem as a salient phrase ranking problem. Given a query and the ranked list of documents (typically a list of titles and snippets) returned by a certain Web search engine, our method first extracts and ranks salient phrases as candidate cluster names, based on a regression model learned from human labeled training data. The documents are assigned to relevant salient phrases to form candidate clusters, and the final clusters are generated by merging these candidate clusters. Experimental results verify our method's feasibility and effectiveness.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of Sheffield SIGIR - Twenty-Seventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages210-217
ISBN (Print)1581138814, 9781581138818
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of Sheffield SIGIR - Twenty-Seventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval - Sheffield, United Kingdom
Duration: 25 Jul 200429 Jul 2004

Publication series

NameProceedings of Sheffield SIGIR - Twenty-Seventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of Sheffield SIGIR - Twenty-Seventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PlaceUnited Kingdom
CitySheffield
Period25/07/0429/07/04

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Research Keywords

  • Document clustering
  • Regression analysis
  • Search result organization

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