Re: Determining Search Query Category

2009-06-04 Thread Walter Underwood
Can you analyze the logs to see which categories people choose for each query? When there are enough queries and a clear preference, you can highlight that choice. wunder On 6/4/09 9:21 PM, "Avlesh Singh" wrote: > If you haven't already given this a thought, you may want to try out an > auto-co

Re: Determining Search Query Category

2009-06-04 Thread Avlesh Singh
If you haven't already given this a thought, you may want to try out an auto-complete feature, suggesting those categories upfront. Cheers Avlesh On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 3:56 AM, ram_sj wrote: > > Hi, > > I have more than 20 categories for my search application. I'm interested in > finding the c

Re: Determining Search Query Category

2009-06-04 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Ram, Typical queries are short, so they are hard to categorize using statistical approaches. Maybe categorization of queries would work with a custom set of rules applied to queries? Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch - Original Message > From: ram_