2005 PersonalizingSearchviaAutomated

Subject Headings: Personalized Search.

Notes

We formulate and study search algorithms that consider a user's prior interactions with a wide variety of content to personalize that user's current Web search. Rather than relying on the unrealistic assumption that people will precisely specify their intent when searching, we pursue techniques that leverage implicit information about the user's interests. This information is used to re-rank Web search results within a relevance feedback framework. We explore rich models of user interests, built from both search-related information, such as previously issued queries and previously visited Web pages, and other information about the user such as documents and email the user has read and created. Our research suggests that rich representations of the user and the corpus are important for personalization, but that it is possible to approximate these representations and provide efficient client-side algorithms for personalizing search. We show that such personalization algorithms can significantly improve on current Web search.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2005 PersonalizingSearchviaAutomated	Susan T. Dumais Jaime Teevan Eric Horvitz			Personalizing Search via Automated Analysis of Interests and Activities				10.1145/1076034.1076111		2005