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WISE 2004: Web Information Systems – WISE 2004 pp 422–427Cite as

An Online Adaptive Method for Personalization of Search Engines

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A personalized search engine combines a user’s interest into its ranking algorithm and can therefore improve its performance for that particular user. In this paper, we present such a personalized search engine, in which we collect the user’s interest implicitly and dynamically from the user’s profile and measure the similarity at the semantic level. Preliminary experiment results show that our method can achieve a promising improvement after collecting sufficient profile data of a particular user.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Guanglin Huang & Liu Wenyin

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  1. School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Australia

    Xiaofang Zhou

  2. Database Systems Research and Development Center, University of Florida, P.O. Box 116125, 470 CSE, 32601-6125, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Stanley Su

  3. INFOLAB, Dept. of Information Systems and Management, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

    Mike P. Papazoglou

  4. Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Faculty of IT, Ul. Koszykowa 86, 02-008, Warsaw, Poland

    Maria Elzbieta Orlowska

  5. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, OX11 0QX, Didcot, UK

    Keith Jeffery

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Huang, G., Wenyin, L. (2004). An Online Adaptive Method for Personalization of Search Engines. In: Zhou, X., Su, S., Papazoglou, M.P., Orlowska, M.E., Jeffery, K. (eds) Web Information Systems – WISE 2004. WISE 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3306. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30480-7_44

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