Personalized Web Search with Location Preferences

As the amount of Web information grows rapidly, search engines must be able to retrieve information according to the user's preference. In this paper, we propose a new web search personalization approach that captures the user's interests and preferences in the form of concepts by mining search results and their clickthroughs. Due to the important role location information plays in mobile search, we separate concepts into content concepts and location concepts, and organize them into ontologies to create an ontology-based, multi-facet (OMF) profile to precisely capture the user's content and location interests and hence improve the search accuracy. Moreover, recognizing the fact that different users and queries may have different emphases on content and location information, we introduce the notion of content and location entropies to measure the amount of content and location information associated with a query, and click content and location entropies to measure how mu...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: ICDE
• Authors: Kenneth Wai-Ting Leung, Dik Lun Lee, Wang-Chien Lee
• Keywords: Content Concepts, Database, ICDE 2010, Location Information, Search Personalization Approach