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Utilizing re-finding for personalized information retrieval

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Sarah K. Tyler,

Jian Wang,

Yi ZhangAuthors Info & Claims

CIKM '10: Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management

Pages 1469 - 1472

https://doi.org/10.1145/1871437.1871649

Published: 26 October 2010 Publication History

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Individuals often use search engines to return to web pages they have previously visited. This behaviour, called re-finding, accounts for about 38% of all queries. While researchers have shown how re-finding differs from traditionally studied new-findings, research on how to predict and utilize re-finding is limited. In this paper we explore re-finding for personalized search. We compared three machine learning algorithms (decision trees, Bayesian multinomial regression and support vector machines) to identify re-findings. We then propose several re-ranking methods to utilize the prediction, including promoting predicted re-finding URLs and combining re-finding prediction with relevance estimation. The experimental results demonstrate that using re-finding predictions can improve retrieval performance for personalized search.

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CIKM '10: Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management

October 2010

2036 pages

ISBN:9781450300995

DOI:10.1145/1871437

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York University, Canada
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University of Toronto, Canada
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Dublin City University, Ireland
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University of Vermont, USA
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Kevyn Collins-Thompson
Microsoft Research, USA
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Aijun An
York University, Canada

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