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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.

The examples are:

jaguar

saturn

apple

 

2. Sub-topics discovery. Many query terms contains sub-topics, SRC can display all important sub-topics of a query term on the Web.

The examples are:

data mining

iraq

digital camera

 

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.

The examples are:

bill clinton

rick rashid

harry shum

 

4. Relationship finding of peoples. When a query is two person’s name, SRC can find out their relationships.

The examples are:

"Kai-Fu Lee" "Ya-Qin Zhang"

"Rick Rashid" "Dan Ling"

 

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.

The examples are:

the biggest ocean

"The World's Hottest Computer Lab"

chinese premier

 

 

 

 

 

 

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