9. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 , further comprising generating the statistical model using weakly supervised training data, wherein the weakly supervised training data is based at least partly on an automated analysis of previously submitted search queries to identify entities in the previously submitted search queries.
9. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 , further comprising generating the statistical model using weakly supervised training data, wherein the weakly supervised training data is based at least partly on an automated analysis of previously submitted search queries to identify entities in the previously submitted search queries. 12. The computer-implemented method of claim 9 , wherein the automated analysis further comprises identifying a plurality of attributes in the previously submitted search queries based at least partly on frequencies with which tokens occur in the previously submitted search queries.