PhD Qualifying Examination


"A Survey of Personalized Web Search"

By Mr. Lin Deng


Abstract:

Searching information over the World-Wide Web is becoming a common
practice for internet users, as the size of Web is huge and
growing rapidly. Most current search engines return the same
results to all users who ask the same query. However, this kind of
service is not satisfactory, for the reason that different users
may have different information needs even for the same query.
Therefore, personalized Web search has recently attracted great
attention from the research community.

In this survey, we focus on the latest technology in the area of
personalized Web search. In particular, we classify the latest
technologies into three categories, namely, link-based,
content-based and function-based personalized Web
search, based on what part of Web search process the
personalization is performed. We individually review the
methodologies and algorithms of each categories in respective
sections, with some emphasis on function-based personalization. We
then briefly overview a relevant field, Web site personalization,
to make our discussion complete. Finally, we identify several
promising directions for future work.


Date:     		Monday, 24 January 2005

Time:                   2:00p.m.-4:00p.m.

Venue:                  Room 4502
			lifts 25-26

Committee Members:      Prof. Dik-Lun Lee (Supervisor)
			Dr. Wilfred Ng (Supervisor)
                        Dr. Qiong Luo (Chairperson)
			Prof. Frederick Lochovsky
			Dr. Nevin Zhang


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