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A “Suggested” Picture of Web Search in Turkish

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Although query log analysis provides crucial insights about Web users’ search interests, conducting such analyses is almost impossible for some languages, as large-scale and public query logs are quite scarce. In this study, we first survey the existing query collections in Turkish and discuss their limitations. Next, we adopt a novel strategy to obtain a set of Turkish queries using the query autocompletion services from the four major search engines and provide the first large-scale analysis of Web queries and their results in Turkish.

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        cover image ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing
        ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing  Volume 15, Issue 4
        June 2016
        173 pages
        ISSN:2375-4699
        EISSN:2375-4702
        DOI:10.1145/2915955
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        • Published: 16 May 2016
        • Accepted: 1 February 2016
        • Revised: 1 November 2015
        • Received: 1 April 2015
        Published in tallip Volume 15, Issue 4

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