Search personalization through query and page topical analysis

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 19, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2009, Pages 5-33

  Stamou, Sofia ^a   Ntoulas, Alexandros ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Personalized search; Topic specific rankings; Topical ontology; User preferences; Web search

Indexed keywords

PERSONALIZED SEARCH; TOPIC-SPECIFIC RANKINGS; TOPICAL ONTOLOGY; USER PREFERENCES; WEB SEARCH;

ENGINES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION THEORY; INTERNET; ONTOLOGY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 58849158276     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: 15731391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11257-008-9056-y     Document Type: Article

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