Extracting News-Related Queries from Web Query Log

• Michael Maslov, Yandex, Russia
• Alexander Golovko, Yandex, Russia
• Ilya Segalovich, Yandex, Russia
• Pavel Braslavski, Yandex, Russia

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Track: Posters

In this poster, we present a method for extracting queries related to real-life events, or news-related queries, from large web query logs. The method employs query frequencies and search over a collection of recent news. News-related queries can be helpful for disambiguating user information needs, as well as for effective online news processing. The performed evaluation proves that the method yields good precision.

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