Title
Modeling contextual factors of click rates
Abstract
In this paper, we develop and evaluate several probabilistic models of user click-through behavior that are appropriate for modeling the click-through rates of items that are presented to the user in a list. Potential applications include modeling the click-through rates of search results from a search engine, items ranked by a recommendation system, and search advertisements returned by a search engine. Our models capture contextual factors related to the presentation as well as the underlying relevance or quality of the item. We focus on two types of contextual factors for a given item; the positional context of the item and the quality of the other results. We evaluate our models on a search advertising dataset from Microsoft's Live search engine and demonstrate that modeling contextual factors improves the accuracy of click-through models.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2007
AAAI
click-through rate,search advertisement,user click-through behavior,search advertising dataset,live search engine,click rate,contextual factor,positional context,search engine,click-through model,search result,click through rate,recommender system,probabilistic model
Field
DocType
Citations 
Recommender system,Search advertising,Search engine,Information retrieval,Ranking,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Search analytics,Probabilistic logic,Machine learning
Conference
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.31
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hila Becker171730.57
Christopher Meek255470.15
David Maxwell Chickering32462529.52