Combining evidence for automatic Web session identification

• Published in: Information processing & management Vol. 38; no. 5; pp. 727 - 742
• Main Authors: He, Daqing, Göker, Ayşe, Harper, David J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 2002; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Context; Contextual Analysis; Dempster–Shafer theory; Evaluation; Information Needs; Information retrieval; Internet; Retrieval performance measures; Search context; Search Strategies; Searches; Searching; Session identification; Studies; Subject Index Terms; Transaction Log Analysis; User Needs (Information); Users; Web user logs; World Wide Web; Web user logs; Dempster–Shafer theory; Search context; Session identification
• ISSN: 0306-4573; 1873-5371
• DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(01)00060-7

Contextual information provides an important basis for identifying and understanding users' information needs. Our previous work in traditional information retrieval systems has shown how using contextual information could improve retrieval performance. With the vast quantity and variety of inf...