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The Personalized Search Engine
Michael Cutter Slug Web Monitoring Michael Cutter soe.ucsc.edu/~mcutter Advisor: Professor Zhang The Personalized Search Engine Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management Laboratory Sammy the slug could use a traditional search engine for the information it wants, but this slug has better things to do. Sammy uses the Slug Web Monitoring (S.W.M.) system. The SWM keeps Sam up to date on new articles published; based on the information searched for. 3 Platform parses a list of RSS feeds User searches on web application Behavior is monitored through Firefox add-on ‘QueryLogToolbar’ When RSS feeds are updated recommendations are pushed to user to review User’s rating and behavior are monitored and recorded to improve recommendations Index RSSs 1 News! S.W.M. Platform 5 2 4 Why does Sammy Use It? Repeat for more accurate results Search for dynamic news Review recommendations Implicit behavior tracked v Using S.W.M. Anita Krishnakumar Future User Studies Acknowledgments Release platform for voluntary use over the internet Collect large pool of data that be used to train classifier Controlled experiments Demographically diverse users will be selected from Goals: Isolate features which influence relevance to user Do browsing behavior imply relevance Do demographical differences change results?
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