EXPLORING MULTI-FACTOR TAGGING ACTIVITY FOR PERSONALIZED SEARCH

Frederico Durao, Ricardo Lage, Peter Dolog, Nilay Coşkun

2011

Abstract

Coping with ambiguous queries has long been an important part in the research of Web Information Systems and Retrieval, but still remains to be a challenging task. Personalized search has recently got significant attention to address this challenge in the web search community, based on the premise that a user’s general preference may help the search engine disambiguate the true intention of a query. However, studies have shown that users are reluctant to provide any explicit input on their personal preference. In this paper, we study how a search engine can learn a user’s preference automatically based on a user’s tagging activity and how it can use the user preference to personalize search results. Our experiments show that users’ preferences can be learned from a multi-factor tagging data and personalized search based on user preference yields significant precision improvements over the existing ranking mechanisms in the literature.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Durao F., Lage R., Dolog P. and Coşkun N. (2011). EXPLORING MULTI-FACTOR TAGGING ACTIVITY FOR PERSONALIZED SEARCH . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8425-51-5, pages 212-220. DOI: 10.5220/0003300502120220

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist11,
author={Frederico Durao and Ricardo Lage and Peter Dolog and Nilay Coşkun},
title={EXPLORING MULTI-FACTOR TAGGING ACTIVITY FOR PERSONALIZED SEARCH},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2011},
pages={212-220},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003300502120220},
isbn={978-989-8425-51-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - EXPLORING MULTI-FACTOR TAGGING ACTIVITY FOR PERSONALIZED SEARCH
SN - 978-989-8425-51-5
AU - Durao F.
AU - Lage R.
AU - Dolog P.
AU - Coşkun N.
PY - 2011
SP - 212
EP - 220
DO - 10.5220/0003300502120220