Model Interactive Search between User and Associated Link Networks

Web search is a key information retrieval method for human beings in current society, both in the fields of academic and commercial activities. Due to "one-size-fits-all" approach limit to search results obtainment, there are still challenges to give personalized web service with high precision in traditional web search process. Herein, a new framework is proposed to advance traditional search process into a new paradigm, i.e. interactive search. First, a cognitive model of interaction process about one search step is developed by the imitation of human search behaviors. Then based on the theory of interactive computing, an interactive search model is introduced to formalize successive search sessions which include several search steps. Third, based on human\´s cognitive mechanism such as the spreading activation model and user memory theory, a user model is designed to capture user\´s search activities which can aid the interactive search process effectively. Last, by the help of Associated Link Network, an information gradient based rank algorithm is proposed aiming at maximizing the quantity of web information supply. The efficiency of our proposed interactive search service is verified by the experimental results.