The compass filter: search engine result personalization using web communities

  • Authors:
  • Apostolos Kritikopoulos;Martha Sideri

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece;Dept. of Computer Science, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece

  • Venue:
  • ITWP'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We propose a simple approach to search engine personalization based on Web communities [14]. User information –in particular, the Web communities whose neighborhoods the user has selected in the past– is used to change the order of the returned search results. We present experimental evidence suggesting that our method indeed improves the quality of the ranking. Our experiments were carried out on a search engine created by our research group and focusing on the Greek fragment of the worldwide Web (1.33 million documents); we also discuss the issue of scaling.