There’s an awful lot of attention is being given to users and click data at the moment (despite the fact that analysing query logs dates back to 10 years ago). “Tailoring Click Models to User Goals” by Guo, Li, Faloutsos (Carnegie University) is from the 2009 workshop on Web Search[...]
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User goals and tailoring click models
Search engines to calculate implicit semantic relations
I came across a cool paper called ”Measuring the Similarity between Implicit Semantic Relations using Web Search Engines” by Bollegala, Matsuo and Ishizuka from the University of Tokyo (WSDM 09). It’s all about calculating the implicit semantic relatedness between word pairs us[...]
Effective Query Log Anonymization
Check out this very good Google tech talk about using query logs: “User search query logs have proven to be very useful, but have vast potential for misuse. Several incidents have shown that simple removal of identifiers is insufficient to protect the identity of users. Publishing such inadeq[...]



