Mining user dwell time for personalized web search re-ranking

Songhua Xu, Hao Jiang, Francis C.M. Lau

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Abstract

We propose a personalized re-ranking algorithm through mining user dwell times derived from a user's previously online reading or browsing activities. We acquire document level user dwell times via a customized web browser, from which we then infer conceptword level user dwell times in order to understand a user's personal interest. According to the estimated concept word level user dwell times, our algorithm can estimate a user's potential dwell time over a new document, based on which personalized webpage re-ranking can be carried out. We compare the rankings produced by our algorithm with rankings generated by popular commercial search engines and a recently proposed personalized ranking algorithm. The results clearly show the superiority of our method.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationIJCAI 2011 - 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Pages2367-2372
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2011 - Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Duration: Jul 16 2011Jul 22 2011

Publication series

NameIJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
ISSN (Print)1045-0823

Other

Other22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2011
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona, Catalonia
Period7/16/117/22/11

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Artificial Intelligence

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