Analyzing linguistic structure of web search queries
Rishiraj Saha Roy · 2013
It is believed that Web search queries are becoming more structurally complex over time. However, there has been no systematic study that quantifies such characteristics. In this thesis, we propose that queries are evolving into a unique linguistic system. We demonstrate proof of this hypothesis by examining the structure of Web queries by applying well-established techniques from natural language understanding. Preliminary results of these experiments show quantitative and qualitative proof that queries are not just some form of text between random sequences of words and natural language - they have distinct properties of their own.