Click modeling aims to interpret the users search click data in order to predict their clicking behavior. In this book, we propose two directions of extending existing click model works: (1) expanding query-document relevance score with a user dimension, hence personalized click models capturing user intrinsic preferences by matrix and tensor factorization; and (2) using previous click models as a micro layer for each click in a macro click chain, which includes search click logs for every clickable block on the whole search result page. Either one of our perspectives on search click modeling...
Click modeling aims to interpret the users search click data in order to predict their clicking behavior. In this book, we propose two directions of e...