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Structure of Query Modification Process: Branchings

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Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2008)

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A common approach to query log analysis considers any query only as a possible modification of a direct predecessor. The paper considers a branching search. It is shown that up to 20% of sessions containing 3 and more different queries contain combinations which may be interpreted as branchings; a number of branches is a little bigger than two; one of the branches consists of only one query; branching may be realized as both narrowing and broadening.

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  1. Institute of System Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences, 9 prospect 60 Let Oktyabrya, 117312, Moscow, Russia

    Nikolai Buzikashvili

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  1. School of Computer Science, Sichuan University, 610065, Chengdu, China

    Changjie Tang

  2. Department of Computer Science, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

    Charles X. Ling

  3. School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Australia

    Xiaofang Zhou

  4. Faculty of Science & Engineering, York University, 355 Lumbers Building, M3J 1P3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Nick J. Cercone

  5. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Queensland, Australia

    Xue Li

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Buzikashvili, N. (2008). Structure of Query Modification Process: Branchings. In: Tang, C., Ling, C.X., Zhou, X., Cercone, N.J., Li, X. (eds) Advanced Data Mining and Applications. ADMA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5139. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88192-6_76

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