Title
Probabilistic latent semantic user segmentation for behavioral targeted advertising
Abstract
Behavioral Targeting (BT), which aims to deliver the most appropriate advertisements to the most appropriate users, is attracting much attention in online advertising market. A key challenge of BT is how to automatically segment users for ads delivery, and good user segmentation may significantly improve the ad click-through rate (CTR). Different from classical user segmentation strategies, which rarely take the semantics of user behaviors into consideration, we propose in this paper a novel user segmentation algorithm named Probabilistic Latent Semantic User Segmentation (PLSUS). PLSUS adopts the probabilistic latent semantic analysis to mine the relationship between users and their behaviors so as to segment users in a semantic manner. We perform experiments on the real world ad click through log of a commercial search engine. Comparing with the other two classical clustering algorithms, K-Means and CLUTO, PLSUS can further improve the ads CTR up to 100%. To our best knowledge, this work is an early semantic user segmentation study for BT in academia.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1592748.1592751
KDD Workshop on Data Mining and Audience Intelligence for Advertising
Keywords
Field
DocType
appropriate user,probabilistic latent semantic user,behavioral targeted advertising,good user segmentation,semantic manner,early semantic user segmentation,ad click-through rate,probabilistic latent semantic analysis,segment user,user behavior,novel user segmentation algorithm,classical user segmentation strategy,online advertising,click through rate
World Wide Web,Click-through rate,Behavioral targeting,Information retrieval,Computer science,Segmentation,Online advertising,Targeted advertising,Probabilistic latent semantic analysis,Probabilistic logic,Semantics
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
19
0.89
17
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaohui Wu1190.89
Jun Yan2179885.25
Ning Liu325315.62
Shuicheng Yan49701359.54
Ying Chen5272.08
Zheng Chen65019256.89