Extracting Search Query Patterns via the Pairwise Coupled Topic Model
Takuya Konishi, Takuya Ohwa, Sumio Fujita, Kazushi Ikeda, Kohei Hayashi · 2016
A fundamental yet new challenge in information retrieval is the identification of patterns behind search queries. For example, the query "NY restaurant" and "boston hotel" shares the common pattern "LOCATION SERVICE". However, because of the diversity of real queries, existing approaches require data preprocessing by humans or specifying the target query domains, which hinders their applicability.