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"text": "Commercial search engines use query associations in a variety of ways, including the recommendation of related queries in Bing, 'something different' in Google, and 'also try' and related concepts in Yahoo. Mining techniques to extract such query associations generally fall into four categories: (a) clustering queries by their co-clicked url patterns (Wen et al., 2001; Baeza-Yates et al., 2004) ; (b) leveraging co-occurrences of sequential queries in web search query sessions (Zhang and Nasraoui, 2006; Boldi et al., 2009) ; (c) pattern-based extraction over lexicosyntactic structures of individual queries (Pa\u015fca and Durme, 2008; Jain and Pantel, 2009) ; and (d) distributional similarity techniques over news or web corpora (Agirre et al., 2009; . These techniques operate at the surface level, associating one surface context (e.g., queries) to another.",
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"text": "In this paper, we focus instead on associating surface contexts with entities that refer to a particular entry in a knowledge base such as Freebase, IMDB, Amazon's product catalog, or The Library of Congress. Whereas the former models might associate the string \"Ronaldinho\" with the strings \"AC Milan\" or \"Lionel Messi\", our goal is to associate \"Ronaldinho\" with, for example, the Wikipedia entity page \"wiki/AC Milan\" or the Freebase entity \"en/lionel mess\". Or for the query string \"ice fishing\", we aim to recommend products in a commercial catalog, such as jigs or lures.",
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"text": "The benefits and potential applications are large. By knowing the entity identifiers associated with a query (instead of strings), one can greatly improve both the presentation of search results as well as the click-through experience. For example, consider when the associated entity is a product. Not only can we present the product name to the web user, but we can also display the image, price, and reviews associated with the entity identifier. Once the entity is clicked, instead of issuing a simple web search query, we can now directly show a product page for the exact product; or we can even perform actions directly on the entity, such as buying the entity on Amazon.com, retrieving the product's oper-ating manual, or even polling your social network for friends that own the product. This is a big step towards a richer semantic search experience.",
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"text": "In this paper, we define the association between a query string q and an entity id e as the probability that e is relevant given the query q, P (e|q). Following Baeza-Yates et al. 2004, we model relevance as the likelihood that a user would click on e given q, events which can be observed in large query-click graphs. Due to the extreme sparsity of query click graphs (Baeza-Yates, 2004), we propose several smoothing models that extend the click graph with query synonyms and then use the synonym click probabilities as a background model. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our smoothing models, via a large-scale empirical study over realworld data, which significantly reduce model errors. We further apply our models to the task of queryproduct recommendation. Queries in session logs are annotated using our association probabilities and recommendations are obtained by modeling sessionlevel query-product co-occurrences in the annotated sessions. Finally, we demonstrate that our models affect 9% of general web queries with 94% recommendation precision.",
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