Transcript Cutter_PSE_powerpoint_SURFIT08

Michael Cutter [email protected]
soe.ucsc.edu/~mcutter
Advisor: Professor Zhang
Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management Laboratory
S.W.M. Platform
RSSs
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Index
Using S.W.M.
Repeat for
more accurate
results
Search for
dynamic news
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v
New
s!
1. Platform parses a list of RSS feeds
2. User searches on web application
3. Behavior is monitored through Firefox add-on
‘QueryLogToolbar’
4. When RSS feeds are updated recommendations are
pushed to user to review
5. User’s rating and behavior are monitored and
recorded to improve recommendations
Why does Sammy Use It?
• 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.
Review
recommendation
s
Implicit behavior
tracked
Future User Studies
• Release platform for voluntary use over the internet
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Collect large pool of data that be used to train classifier
• Controlled experiments
•Demographically diverse users will be selected from
Goals:
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Isolate features which influence relevance to user
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Do browsing behavior imply relevance
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Do demographical differences change results?
Acknowledgments
Anita Krishnakumar
http://lemurproject.org/
http://feedparser.org/