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Web users use search engine to find useful information on the Internet. However current web search engines return answer to a query independent of specific user information need. Since web users with similar web behaviors tend to acquire similar information when they submit a same query, these unseen factors can be used to improve search result. In this paper we present an approach that mines these unseen factors from web logs to personalized web search. Our approach is based on probabilistic latent semantic analysis, a model based technique that is used to analyze co-occurrence data. Experimental results on real data collected by MSN search engine show the improvements over traditional web search.
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Lin, C., Xue, GR., Zeng, HJ., Yu, Y. (2005). Using Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis for Personalized Web Search. In: Zhang, Y., Tanaka, K., Yu, J.X., Wang, S., Li, M. (eds) Web Technologies Research and Development - APWeb 2005. APWeb 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3399. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31849-1_68
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