METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CLASSIFICATION OF USER QUERY INTENT FOR MEDICAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM

According to one embodiment, a set of predetermined queries are collected, where each of the predetermined queries is associated with a predetermined category (e.g., particular medical category or particular type of Web sites). For each of the predetermined queries, the predetermined query is annotated using an annotation dictionary corresponding to the predetermined category. One or more features are extracted from the predetermined query based on annotation of the predetermined query. A classification model corresponding to the predetermined category is trained and generated based on the predetermined queries and features associated with the predetermined queries. The classification model is utilized to classify users for information retrieval.