Bing Explore: Topic Relevance HitApp

Guidelines
Introduction
Bing Explore is an important feature on Bing helping the user to further research or explore about a query. The feature
suggests useful and interesting Topics by adding greater value. The current HitApp will be used to identify if the Topic
suggested are useful or not. We do this by calculating Query – Topic relevance.

Query

Topics

Definitions
 Query: The search made by the user on a search engine
 TOPIC: A suggestion that helps the user to better understand the query

Steps
The objective of identifying relevance is divided into smaller problems.

Grammatical correctness:

 The topic suggested must not have any spelling or grammatical mistakes
Identifying domain:

 Query and suggested Topic must be from similar domain

Topic describing the query:

 A topic can describe a query by being related to the query or any property/ aspect of the query
 On a scale of ‘Not Related’ – ‘Very related’ evaluate if the topic is describing the query

Examples

Query Topic Judgement Reason

lufthansa flights from geneva flag of geneva Not Related Not from the same domain. Travel
to munich vs Geography
all inclusive spa weekend all-inclusive Not Related Words matching but not from the
getaways same domain
all inclusive spa weekend getaway special Related Not the same domain. Travel vs
getaways NASA program
athens the school of athens Related Query is very vague, so the topic
can describe any feature of it. Here,
the topic is describing the art of
Athens
princess cruises world cruises cruise ships Related Topic is describing the market of
cruise ships
american airlines coronavirus travel coronavirus Related Similar domain and related terms
san diego to memphis one san diego Related Similar domain and slightly related
way flights terms
branson hotels branson scenic railway Related Similar domain and slightly related
terms
city of moss point, ms micropolitan areas in Related Similar domain and related terms
mississippi
brent knoll jonathan brent Not Related Not related entities and not same
domain
san diego to los angeles transportation in san diego Related Same domain. The topic is closely
related
travel restriction within the durra border crossing Not Related Domain is similar, but the topic
us due to cornavirs isn’t describing an aspect of the
query
lufthansa flights from geneva munich airport Related Similar domain and related terms
to munich
china southern airlines cargo china cargo airlines Related Similar domain and related terms
miami
amtrak superliner bedroom skyliner ballroom Not Related Both the terms are in the similar
domains of rooms. But are very
loosely related.
brent knoll nicholas brend Not Related Not related entities and not same
domain
airport code for pago samoa Not Related Very loosely related terms
american samoa