paper, we describe our work at subtopic mining subtask in NTCIR-9 in simplified Chinese. To find possible subtopics of a specific query, we select related queries recorded by query log, or titles of searching results provided by Google and Baidu, or the catalog of corresponding entry in Baidu encyclopedia, which are lexically similar as the original query, then we apply k-means algorithm to cluster these candidate queries with different k (k=5, 10), and rank these queries with consideration of similarities and clusters. Keywordssubtopic mining, query log
['Xue Jiang', 'Xianpei Han', 'Le Sun']
ISCAS at Subtopic Mining Task in NTCIR9