MSN Search Results Clustering
The Search Result Clustering (SRC) technology facilitates Web users’ browsing through the long list of search results. Several typical usages of this technology are as below:1. Query disambiguation. When a query is ambiguous, SRC can group the search results according to different senses of the query word.
2. Sub-topics discovery. Many query terms contains sub-topics, SRC can display all important sub-topics of a query term on the Web.
3. Fact finding of peoples. When a query is a person name, SRC can find the affiliation, position, interests and related persons for him/her.
4. Relationship finding of peoples. When a query is two person’s name, SRC can find out their relationships.
5. Q&A. When a query is a question, SRC can find out the possible answers and rank the most probable one as the first answer.