An experimental comparison of click position-bias models

WSDM'08 - Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 87-94

  Craswell, Nick ^a   Zoeter, Onno ^a   Taylor, Michael ^a   Ramsey, Bill ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Click data; User behavior; Web search models

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION SERVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEBSITES;

CLICK DATA; DATA-GATHERING; USER BEHAVIOR; WEB SEARCH MODELS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 42549140738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1341531.1341545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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