Analysis of Varying Approaches to Topical Web Query Classification
Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen, Abdur Chowdhury, Ophir Frieder · 2008
Topical classification of web queries has drawn recent interest from forums such as the 2005 KDD Cup because of the promise it offers in improving retrieval effectiveness and efficiency. Many proposed techniques make use of documents classified in taxonomies (such as the ODP: Open Directory Project