Title
Personalized web search by mapping user queries to categories
Abstract
Current web search engines are built to serve all users, independent of the needs of any individual user. Personalization of web search is to carry out retrieval for each user incorporating his/her interests. We propose a novel technique to map a user query to a set of categories, which represent the user's search intention. This set of categories can serve as a context to disambiguate the words in the user's query. A user profile and a general profile are learned from the user's search history and a category hierarchy respectively. These two profiles are combined to map a user query into a set of categories. Several learning and combining algorithms are evaluated and found to be effective. Among the algorithms to learn a user profile, we choose the Rocchio-based method for its simplicity, efficiency and its ability to be adaptive. Experimental results indicate that our technique to personalize web search is both effective and efficient.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1145/584792.584884
CIKM
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
novel technique,mapping user query,personalized web search,rocchio-based method,current web search engine,user profile,search intention,general profile,user query,individual user,search history,web search,search engine,personalization,web search engine
Conference
1-58113-492-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
119
6.63
23
Authors
3
Search Limit
100119
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fang Liu161128.69
Clement T. Yu231711419.96
Weiyi Meng32722514.77