Abstract
Search logs are very precious for information retrieval studies. In this chapter, we will introduce a real Chinese query log dataset, SogouQ, which was released by SogouQ corporation in 2010 for the NTCIR-9 Intent task. SogouQ contains more than 30 million clicks collected in 2008. It is the first large-scale query logs used in a shared-task evaluation (i.e., the NTCIR tasks). SogouQ has been adopted in a number of follow-up evaluation tasks, NTCIR-10 Intent-2, NTCIR-11 IMine, NTCIR-12 IMine-2, as well as in several Chinese domestic tasks. Moreover, SogouQ has a broader impact on other research areas, such as natural language processing and social science. It has been acquired by more than 200 institutions.
Highlights
When we were preparing the NTCIR-9 Intent task that aims to investigate query intents and search result diversification (Song et al 2011) in 2010, Sogou corporation was so generous to provide a real Chinese query log to NTCIR participants and further research communities
The NTCIR-9 Intent task attracted 16 teams for Subtopic Mining subtask and 8 teams for Document Ranking subtask. It became the largest track in NTCIR-9 partially because participants are interested in SogouQ and how to use query logs for mining intents and diversifying document ranking
The problems that are explored in NTCIR Intent and IMine tasks require a data collection of query logs
Summary
When we were preparing the NTCIR-9 Intent task that aims to investigate query intents and search result diversification (Song et al 2011) in 2010, Sogou corporation was so generous to provide a real Chinese query log to NTCIR participants and further research communities. The data is called SogouQ and contains 30 million clicks collected in 2008. It is the first large-scale query logs used in a shared-task evaluation, such as NTCIR tasks. The NTCIR-9 Intent task attracted 16 teams for Subtopic Mining subtask and 8 teams for Document Ranking subtask It became the largest track in NTCIR-9 partially because participants are interested in SogouQ and how to use query logs for mining intents and diversifying document ranking. The usage of SogouQ data collection goes beyond the research on query intent.
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