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Personalized Federated Search at LinkedIn

Information Retrieval 2016-02-17 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

LinkedIn has grown to become a platform hosting diverse sources of information ranging from member profiles, jobs, professional groups, slideshows etc. Given the existence of multiple sources, when a member issues a query like "software engineer", the member could look for software engineer profiles, jobs or professional groups. To tackle this problem, we exploit a data-driven approach that extracts searcher intents from their profile data and recent activities at a large scale. The intents such as job seeking, hiring, content consuming are used to construct features to personalize federated search experience. We tested the approach on the LinkedIn homepage and A/B tests show significant improvements in member engagement. As of writing this paper, the approach powers all of federated search on LinkedIn homepage.

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@article{arxiv.1602.04924,
  title  = {Personalized Federated Search at LinkedIn},
  author = {Dhruv Arya and Viet Ha-Thuc and Shakti Sinha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.04924},
  year   = {2016}
}

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in Proceedings of the 24th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015)

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