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Predicting short-term interests using activity-based search context (2010)
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| Venue: | In CIKM |
| Citations: | 40 - 17 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{White10predictingshort-term,
author = {Ryen W. White},
title = {Predicting short-term interests using activity-based search context},
booktitle = {In CIKM},
year = {2010},
pages = {1009--1018}
}
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Abstract
A query considered in isolation offers limited information about a searcher’s intent. Query context that considers pre-query activity (e.g., previous queries and page visits), can provide richer information about search intentions. In this paper, we describe a study in which we developed and evaluated user interest models for the current query, its context (from pre-query session activity), and their combination, which we refer to as intent. Using large-scale logs, we evaluate how accurately each model predicts the user’s short-term interests under various experimental conditions. In our study we: (i) determine the extent of opportunity for using context to model intent; (ii) compare the utility of different sources of behavioral evidence (queries, search result clicks, and Web page visits) for building predictive interest models, and; (iii) investigate optimally combining the query and its context by learning a model that predicts the context weight for each query. Our findings demonstrate significant opportunity in leveraging contextual information, show that context and source influence predictive accuracy, and show that we can learn a near-optimal combination of the query and context for each query. The findings can inform the design of search systems that leverage contextual information to better understand, model, and serve searchers ’ information needs.
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short-term interest activity-based search context contextual information user interest model user short-term interest query context search result click searcher information need near-optimal combination source influence predictive accuracy previous query behavioral evidence current query different source large-scale log various experimental condition pre-query session activity isolation offer search intention predictive interest model context weight search system pre-query activity significant opportunity searcher intent
