Syntactic complexity of Web search queries through the lenses of language models, networks and users
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Highlights：
• We present a holistic view on the syntactic complexity of Web search queries.
• We use three perspectives: statistical language modeling, complex network analysis, and “native speaker” intuition.
• The three complementary viewpoints show that the syntactic structure of Web queries is more complex than what n-grams can capture, but simpler than natural language.
• Queries, thus, seem to represent an intermediate stage between syntactic and non-syntactic communication.
摘要
•We present a holistic view on the syntactic complexity of Web search queries.•We use three perspectives: statistical language modeling, complex network analysis, and “native speaker” intuition.•The three complementary viewpoints show that the syntactic structure of Web queries is more complex than what n-grams can capture, but simpler than natural language.•Queries, thus, seem to represent an intermediate stage between syntactic and non-syntactic communication.
论文关键词：Query complexity,Statistical language models,Word co-occurrence networks,Crowd-sourcing
论文评审过程：Received 17 February 2015, Revised 17 February 2016, Accepted 5 April 2016, Available online 23 April 2016, Version of Record 22 July 2016.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2016.04.002
