To each his own: Personalized content selection based on text comprehensibility

WSDM 2012 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 233-242

  Tan, Chenhao ^a   Gabrilovich, Evgeniy ^b   Pang, Bo ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Personalization; Re ranking; Text comprehensibility; User modeling

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING TECHNIQUES; DATA SPARSITY; INFORMATION NEED; LARGE-SCALE DATASETS; PERSONALIZATIONS; PERSONALIZED CONTENT; QUESTION ANSWERING; RE-RANKING; READING PROFICIENCY; SEARCH RESULTS; SELECTION BASED; TEXT COMPREHENSIBILITY; USER MODELING; USER PROFILE;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84858039294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2124295.2124325     Document Type: Conference Paper

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