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- Title
Improving contextual advertising matching by using Wikipedia thesaurus knowledge.
- Authors
Xu, Guandong; Wu, Zongda; Li, Guiling; Chen, Enhong
- Abstract
As a prevalent type of Web advertising, contextual advertising refers to the placement of the most relevant commercial ads within the content of a Web page, to provide a better user experience and as a result increase the user's ad-click rate. However, due to the intrinsic problems of homonymy and polysemy, the low intersection of keywords, and a lack of sufficient semantics, traditional keyword matching techniques are not able to effectively handle contextual matching and retrieve relevant ads for the user, resulting in an unsatisfactory performance in ad selection. In this paper, we introduce a new contextual advertising approach to overcome these problems, which uses Wikipedia thesaurus knowledge to enrich the semantic expression of a target page (or an ad). First, we map each page into a keyword vector, upon which two additional feature vectors, the Wikipedia concept and category vector derived from the Wikipedia thesaurus structure, are then constructed. Second, to determine the relevant ads for a given page, we propose a linear similarity fusion mechanism, which combines the above three feature vectors in a unified manner. Last, we validate our approach using a set of real ads, real pages along with the external Wikipedia thesaurus. The experimental results show that our approach outperforms the conventional contextual advertising matching approaches and can substantially improve the performance of ad selection.
- Subjects
INTERNET advertising; WIKIPEDIA; INTERNET content; DATA fusion (Statistics); PATTERN matching
- Publication
Knowledge & Information Systems, 2015, Vol 43, Issue 3, p599
- ISSN
0219-1377
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10115-014-0745-z