Predicting short-term interests using activity-based search context

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1009-1018

  White, Ryen W ^a   Bennett, Paul N ^a   Dumais, Susan T ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Interest models; Search context; Short term interests

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY-BASED; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; INFORMATION NEED; INTEREST MODELS; LIMITED INFORMATION; OPTIMAL COMBINATION; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; QUERY CONTEXT; SEARCH CONTEXT; SEARCH RESULTS; SEARCH SYSTEM; SHORT-TERM INTERESTS; USER INTEREST MODEL; WEB PAGE;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78651335112     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1871437.1871565     Document Type: Conference Paper

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