Web search enhancement by mining user actions

Information Sciences

Volumn 177, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 5203-5218

  Beg, M M Sufyan ^a   Ahmad, Nesar ^b  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Personalized web searching; Rank aggregation; Search quality; User feedback; Web usage mining

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MAIL; FUZZY RULES; INFORMATION SERVICES; ONLINE SEARCHING; USER INTERFACES; WEB SERVICES;

RANK AGGREGATION; RANK ORDERING; SEARCH QUALITY; USER FEEDBACK; WEB SEARCHING; WEB USAGE MINING;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 34548631178     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2006.06.011     Document Type: Article

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