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Optimizing web search using web click-through data

  • Gui-Rong Xue
  • , Hua-Jun Zeng
  • , Zheng Chen
  • , Yong Yu
  • , Wei-Ying Ma
  • , WenSi Xi
  • , WeiGuo Fan

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

Abstract

The performance of web search engines may often deteriorate due to the diversity and noisy information contained within web pages. User click-through data can be used to introduce more accurate description (metadata) for web pages, and to improve the search performance. However, noise and incompleteness, sparseness, and the volatility of web pages and queries are three major challenges for research work on user click-through log mining. In this paper, we propose a novel iterative reinforced algorithm to utilize the user click-through data to improve search performance. The algorithm fully explores the interrelations between queries and web pages, and effectively finds "virtual queries" for web pages and overcomes the challenges discussed above. Experiment results on a large set of MSN click-through log data show a significant improvement on search performance over the naive query log mining algorithm as well as the baseline search engine. Copyright 2004 ACM.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCIKM 2004: Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages118-126
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes
EventCIKM 2004: Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - Washington, DC, United States
Duration: 8 Nov 200413 Nov 2004

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Conference

ConferenceCIKM 2004: Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
PlaceUnited States
CityWashington, DC
Period8/11/0413/11/04

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Research Keywords

  • Click-through Data
  • Iterative Algorithm
  • Log Mining
  • Search Engine

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