A Unified User Profile Framework for Query Disambiguation and Personalization
Georgia Koutrika, Yannis Ioannidis · 2005
Personalization of keyword searches has attracted interest in the re- search community as a means to decrease search ambiguity and return results that are more bound to be interesting to a particular user. We describe a term- based user profile that treats query disambiguation and personalization as a uni- form term rewriting process. Its key feature is the representation of connections between terms based on possible rewritings between them on a per user basis. We present a query-rewriting algorithm for such query disambiguation based on the proposed profiles. Preliminary experimental results show the potential of the overall approach.