User modeling and user profiling: A comprehensive survey

E Purificato, L Boratto, EW De Luca - arxiv preprint arxiv:2402.09660, 2024 - arxiv.org
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into daily life, particularly through information
retrieval and recommender systems, has necessitated advanced user modeling and …

Cognitive personalized search integrating large language models with an efficient memory mechanism

Y Zhou, Q Zhu, J **, Z Dou - Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Traditional search engines usually provide identical search results for all users, overlooking
individual preferences. To counter this limitation, personalized search has been developed …

Intent-oriented dynamic interest modeling for personalized web search

Y Bai, Y Zhou, Z Dou, JR Wen - ACM Transactions on Information …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Given a user, a personalized search model relies on her historical behaviors, such as issued
queries and their clicked documents, to generate an interest profile and personalize search …

Denoising attention for query-aware user modeling

E Bassani, P Kasela, G Pasi - Findings of the Association for …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Personalization of search results has gained increasing attention in the past few years, also
thanks to the development of Neural Networks-based approaches for Information Retrieval …

Integrated Personalized and Diversified Search Based on Search Logs

J Liu, Z Dou, JY Nie, JR Wen - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Personalized search and search result diversification are two possible solutions to cope with
the query ambiguity problem in search engines. In most existing studies, they have been …

[HTML][HTML] Knowledge-driven profile dynamics

E Fermé, M Garapa, MDL Reis, Y Almeida, T Paulino… - Artificial Intelligence, 2024 - Elsevier
In the last decades, user profiles have been used in several areas of information technology.
In the literature, most research works, and systems focus on the creation of profiles (using …

Beyond Positive History: Re-ranking with List-level Hybrid Feedback

M Weng, Y **, W Liu, B Chen, J Lin, R Tang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
As the last stage of recommender systems, re-ranking generates a re-ordered list that aligns
with the user's preference. However, previous works generally focus on item-level positive …

How to personalize and whether to personalize? Candidate documents decide

W Liu, Y Zhou, Y Zhu, Z Dou - Knowledge and Information Systems, 2024 - Springer
Personalized search plays an important role in satisfying users' information needs owing to
its ability to build user profiles based on users' search histories. Most of the existing …

Denoising Attention for Query-aware User Modeling in Personalized Search

E Bassani, P Kasela, G Pasi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2308.15968, 2023 - arxiv.org
The personalization of search results has gained increasing attention in the past few years,
thanks to the development of Neural Networks-based approaches for Information Retrieval …

A Topicality Relevance-Aware Intent Model for Web Search

M Wang, J Liu, J Wang, Y Wang, X Chu - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To accurately understand user information needs and provide better search experiences,
various methods have been proposed to model user search intent from their search logs …