4. The method of claim 1 , wherein measuring the first mutual information values includes determining numbers of clicks by the users on: shared URLs that are returned by the search engine responsive to the entire first query, other first URLs that are returned by the search engine responsive to other first queries that include the first phrases without the first tags, and further first URLs that are returned by the search engine responsive to further first queries that include the first tags without the first phrases.
1. A method performed by a computing device, the method comprising: selecting, from a query log stored in a database, a first query associated with a first set of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) returned by a search engine responsive to the first query and a second query associated with a second set of URLs returned by the search engine responsive to the second query; measuring a click similarity between the first query and the second query, the click similarity being measured based on similarity of first click behavior of users with respect to the first set of URLs to second click behavior of the users with respect to the second set of URLs; measuring first mutual information values between first phrases and first tags of the first query based on the first click behavior, wherein the first phrases and the first tags comprise different tokens of the first query; measuring second mutual information values between second phrases and second tags of the second query based on the second click behavior, wherein the second phrases and the second tags comprise different tokens of the second query; measuring a tag similarity between the first query and the second query using the first mutual information values and the second mutual information values; determining whether the first query and the second query are synonyms using both the click similarity and the tag similarity; and when the first query and the second query are determined to be synonyms, storing the second query as a query synonym of the first query.