Title
Constructing Click Model for Mobile Search with Viewport Time
Abstract
A series of click models has been proposed to extract accurate and unbiased relevance feedback from valuable yet noisy click-through data in search logs. Previous works have shown that users search behavior in mobile and desktop scenarios are rather different in many aspects, therefore, the click models designed for desktop search may not be effective in the mobile context. To address this problem, we propose two novel click models for mobile search: (1) Mobile Click Model (MCM), which models click necessity bias and examination satisfaction bias; (2) Viewport Time Click Model (VTCM), which further extends MCM by utilizing the viewport time. Extensive experiments on large-scale real mobile search logs show that: (1) MCM and VTCM outperform existing models in predicting users’ clicks and estimating result relevance; (2) MCM and VTCM can extract richer information, such as the click necessity of search results and the probability of user satisfaction, from mobile click logs; (3) By modeling the viewport time distributions of heterogeneous results, VTCM can bring a significant improvement over MCM in click prediction and relevance estimation tasks. Our proposed click models can help better understand user behavior patterns in mobile search and improve the ranking performance of mobile search engines.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3360486
ACM Transactions on Information Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Click model,mobile search,viewport time,web search
Mobile search,Viewport,Information retrieval,Computer science,Click model
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
37
4
1046-8188
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.39
36
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yukun Zheng1314.02
Jiaxin Mao216426.30
Yiqun Liu31592136.51
Cheng Luo49412.58
Min Zhang51658134.93
Shaoping Ma61544126.00