Personalised query suggestion for intranet search with temporal user profiling

Thanh Vu, Alistair Willis, Udo Kruschwitz, Dawei Song

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Abstract

Recent research has shown the usefulness of using collective user interaction data (e.g., query logs) to recommend query modification suggestions for Intranet search. However, most of the query suggestion approaches for Intranet search follow an "one size fits all" strategy, whereby different users who submit an identical query would get the same query suggestion list. This is problematic, as even with the same query, different users may have different topics of interest, which may change over time in response to the user's interaction with the system. In this paper, we address the problem by proposing a personalised query suggestion framework for Intranet search. For each search session, we construct two temporal user profiles: a click user profile using the user's clicked documents and a query user profile using the user's submitted queries. We then use the two profiles to re-rank the non-personalised query suggestion list returned by a state-of-the-art query suggestion method for Intranet search. Experimental results on a large-scale query logs collection show that our personalised framework significantly improves the quality of suggested queries.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCHIIR 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages265-268
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450346771
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Mar 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2017 - Oslo, Norway
Duration: 7 Mar 201711 Mar 2017

Publication series

NameCHIIR 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

Conference

Conference2nd ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2017
Country/TerritoryNorway
CityOslo
Period7/03/1711/03/17

Keywords

  • Interactive IR
  • Intranet Search
  • Learning to Rank
  • Personalised Query Suggestion
  • Temporal User Profiles

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