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Log mining to improve the performance of site search

  • Gui-Rong Xue
  • , Hua-Jun Zeng
  • , Zheng Chen
  • , Wei-Ying Ma
  • , Chao-Jun Lu

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

Abstract

Despite of the popularity of global search engines, people still suffer from low accuracy of site search. The primary reason lies in the difference of link structures and data scale between global Web and website, which leads to failures of traditional re-ranking methods such as HITS, PageRank and DirectHit. This paper proposes a novel re-ranking method based on user logs within websites. With the help of website taxonomy, we mine for generalized association rules and abstract access patterns of different levels. Mining results are subsequently used to re-rank the retrieved pages. One of the advantages of our mining algorithm is that it resolves the diversity problem of user's access behavior and discovers general patterns. Experiment shows that the proposed method outperforms keyword-based method by 15% and DirectHit by 13% respectively. © 2002 IEEE.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWISE 2002 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering Workshops
PublisherIEEE
Pages238-245
ISBN (Print)0769518133, 9780769518138
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2002
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering Workshops, WISE 2002 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 11 Dec 2002 → …

Publication series

NameWISE 2002 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering Workshops

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering Workshops, WISE 2002
PlaceSingapore
CitySingapore
Period11/12/02 → …

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