Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2008, Volume 5012/2008, 923-931, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-68125-0_94

Using Ontology-Based User Preferences to Aggregate Rank Lists in Web Search

Lin Li, Zhenglu Yang and Masaru Kitsuregawa

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Abstract

This paper studies rank aggregation by using ontology-based user preferences in the context of Web search. We introduce a set of techniques to combine the respective rank lists produced by different attributes of user preferences. Furthermore, the learned user preferences are structured as a taxonomic hierarchy (a simple ontology). We use the learned ontology to store the attributes such as, the topics that a user is interested in and the degrees of user interests in these topics. The primary goal of our work is to form a broadly acceptable rank list among these attributes by making use of rank-based aggregation. Experiment results on a real click-through data set show that our user-centered rank aggregation techniques are effective in improving the quality of the Web search in terms of user satisfaction.

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