The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for updating a mining model, which are applied to the mining model in a semantic analysis system. The method includes: acquiring a semantic analysis result obtained by analyzing a query through the semantic analysis system; generating a training format corpus according to the semantic analysis result, in which the training format corpus includes a first format corpus and a second format corpus; and performing an iterative updating on the mining model based on the first format corpus and the second format corpus, in which the first format corpus is configured to label a semantic feature in the query, and the second format corpus is configured to label a template feature in the query. With the present disclosure, a semantic analysis effect of the semantic analysis system may be improved effectively.