Search personalization with embeddings

Thanh Vu, Dat Quoc Nguyen*, Mark Johnson, Dawei Song, Alistair Willis

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Abstract

Recent research has shown that the performance of search personalization depends on the richness of user profiles which normally represent the user’s topical interests. In this paper, we propose a new embedding approach to learning user profiles, where users are embedded on a topical interest space. We then directly utilize the user profiles for search personalization. Experiments on query logs from a major commercial web search engine demonstrate that our embedding approach improves the performance of the search engine and also achieves better search performance than other strong baselines.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Information Retrieval - 39th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2017, Proceedings
EditorsClaudia Hauff, Joemon M. Jose, Dyaa Albakour, Ismail Sengor Altingovde, John Tait, Dawei Song, Stuart Watt
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages598-604
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9783319566078
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event39th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2017 - Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Duration: 8 Apr 201713 Apr 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10193 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference39th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
City Aberdeen
Period8/04/1713/04/17

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