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EDBT
2012
ACM
225views Database» more  EDBT 2012»
12 years 3 months ago
Differentially private search log sanitization with optimal output utility
Web search logs contain extremely sensitive data, as evidenced by the recent AOL incident. However, storing and analyzing search logs can be very useful for many purposes (i.e. in...
Yuan Hong, Jaideep Vaidya, Haibing Lu, Mingrui Wu
TKDE
2012
227views Formal Methods» more  TKDE 2012»
12 years 3 months ago
Publishing Search Logs - A Comparative Study of Privacy Guarantees
—Search engine companies collect the “database of intentions”, the histories of their users’ search queries. These search logs are a gold mine for researchers. Search engin...
Michaela Götz, Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Guozha...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
An exploration of ranking heuristics in mobile local search
Users increasingly rely on their mobile devices to search local entities, typically businesses, while on the go. Even though recent work has recognized that the ranking signals in...
Yuanhua Lv, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Qiang Wu
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
Learning to suggest: a machine learning framework for ranking query suggestions
We consider the task of suggesting related queries to users after they issue their initial query to a web search engine. We propose a machine learning approach to learn the probab...
Umut Ozertem, Olivier Chapelle, Pinar Donmez, Emre...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Applying differential privacy to search queries in a policy based interactive framework
Web search logs are of growing importance to researchers as they help understanding search behavior and search engine performance. However, search logs typically contain sensitive...
Palanivel Balaji Kodeswaran, Evelyne Viegas
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Beyond hyperlinks: organizing information footprints in search logs to support effective browsing
While current search engines serve known-item search such as homepage finding very well, they generally cannot support exploratory search effectively. In exploratory search, user...
Xuanhui Wang, Bin Tan, Azadeh Shakery, ChengXiang ...
KDD
2009
ACM
183views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
15 years 1 months ago
OLAP on search logs: an infrastructure supporting data-driven applications in search engines
Search logs, which contain rich and up-to-date information about users' needs and preferences, have become a critical data source for search engines. Recently, more and more ...
Bin Zhou 0002, Daxin Jiang, Jian Pei, Hang Li