IMPROVING WEB SEARCH BY EXPLOITING SEARCH LOGS

Hongyan Ma

2009

Abstract

With the increased use of Web search engines, acute needs evolve for more adaptive and more personalizable Information Retrieval (IR) systems. This study proposes an innovative probabilistic method exploiting search logs to gather useful data about contexts and users to support adaptive retrieval. Real users’ search logs from an operational Web search engine, Infocious, were processed to obtain past queries and click-through data for adaptive indexing and unified probabilistic retrieval. An empirical experiment of retrieval effectiveness was conducted. The results demonstrate that the log-based probabilistic system yields statistically superior performance over the baseline system.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ma H. (2009). IMPROVING WEB SEARCH BY EXPLOITING SEARCH LOGS . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-81-4, pages 208-216. DOI: 10.5220/0001843802080216

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist09,
author={Hongyan Ma},
title={IMPROVING WEB SEARCH BY EXPLOITING SEARCH LOGS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2009},
pages={208-216},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001843802080216},
isbn={978-989-8111-81-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - IMPROVING WEB SEARCH BY EXPLOITING SEARCH LOGS
SN - 978-989-8111-81-4
AU - Ma H.
PY - 2009
SP - 208
EP - 216
DO - 10.5220/0001843802080216