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Record W2022006917 · doi:10.1145/1645953.1646069

Clustering web queries

2009· article· en· W2022006917 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Clustering Algorithms Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCluster analysisComputer scienceData miningWeightingClassifier (UML)Set (abstract data type)PopulationSearch engineInformation retrievalMetric (unit)Artificial intelligence

Abstract

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Despite the wide applicability of clustering methods, their evaluation remains a problem. In this paper, we present a metric for the evaluation of clustering methods. The data set to be clustered is viewed as a sample from a larger population, with clustering quality measured in terms of our predicted ability to discriminate between members of this population. We measure this property by training a classifier to recognize each cluster and measuring the accuracy of this classifier, normalized by a notion of expected accuracy. To demonstrate the applicability of this metric we apply it to Web queries. We investigated a commercially oriented data set of 1700 queries and a general data set of 4000 queries. Both sets are taken from the logs of a commercial Web search engine. Clustering is based on the contents of search engine result pages generated by executing the queries on the search engine from which they were taken. Multiple clustering algorithms are crossed with various weighting schemes to produce multiple clusterings of each query set. Our metric is used evaluate these clusterings. The results on the commercially oriented data set are compared to two pre-existing manual labelings, and are also used in an ad clickthrough experiment.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.972
Threshold uncertainty score0.294

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.301
Teacher spread0.282 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Published2009
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