How questions are posed to a search engine An empiricial analysis of question queries in a large scale Persian search engine log

Authors

Mohammad Zahedi, Iran Telecommunication Research Center, Tehran University
Behrouz Mansouri, Tehran University
Shiva Moradkhani, Iran Telecommunication Research Center
Mojgan Farhoodi, Iran Telecommunication Research Center
Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong in DubaiFollow

RIS ID

115677

Publication Details

Zahedi, M. Sadegh., Mansouri, B., Moradkhani, S., Farhoodi, M. & Oroumchian, F. 2017, 'How questions are posed to a search engine An empiricial analysis of question queries in a large scale Persian search engine log', 2017 3rd International Conference on Web Research, ICWR 2017, IEEE, United States, pp. 84-89.

Abstract

In this paper we investigate a Persian search engine log and present a comprehensive analysis of question queries in three levels: structure, click and topic. By analyzing question queries characteristics, we explore behavior of Persian language users. Our experimental results show that question queries length are larger than normal queries. Most of these queries contained question words 'How' and 'What' and their topics were mainly about health, policy, religion and society.