How Intelligent Search Interprets a Question

When you submit a question for tuning, MSQ provides one or more annotations for each word in the question. It derives these annotations using a series of processes that break he question down to individual words to find and correct spelling errors, reduce plural words to singular, and check whether each word is a concept or a synonym of a concept in the Search dictionary.

After the processes are completed, MSQ displays the annotations on each word in the How Search Interprets the Question pane.

  • Each annotation with an X represents a word that the tuning process skips (skip word).

  • Each annotation with a light bulb icon represents one or more words that are synonyms of a concept in the Search dictionary.

  • Each annotation with two pages represents an unknown word.

When you enter a sentence to tune with more than one word, the annotations have a darker background until you select one or more words. For one-word sentences (for example, the sentence Accessories), MSQ automatically selects that annotation and the background is lighter.

You can see and compare changes to similar questions at Compare Changes to Similar Questions Your Users Are Asking. Click the checkbox to display recent similar questions your users asked. If you don't want to see the list of recent questions, simply uncheck it. This checkbox is checked by default.

Note: When you select this checkbox, the checkbox in Search Results After Using the Tuned Question is also selected. Conversely if you unselect the checkbox, the Search Results After Using the Tuned Question checkbox is also unselected. When you start a new tuning flow, MSQ uses the latest check box status from the previous tuning flow. Once you select the check box, the results remain displayed, even if you unselect it.