A Simple Personalization Layer Improving Relevancy of Web Search

This paper presents an approach to personalized web search that is based on augmenting query with additional keywords extracted from interested person’s profile. The profile reflects interested person’s interests, past searching experiences etc. It is represented by a set of weighted keywords displayed conveniently as a keyword cloud. Experiments on web search show that our search system can improve relevancy over popular

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