Targeted Online Advertisement Based on User Trails
Recommendation System 12.2010
ABSTRACT. In this project we address the problem of finding the most suitable banner display advertisement
option for a user given his/her current browsing session. Using the historical browsing session information
for an advertisement campaign, we mine the association of different ad views, engagements
and clicks. Using a probabilistic model, we find the likelihood of an ad to be clicked given a specific
set of events that describe the user session. The major challenge in training the model for optimum
precision is the sparsity of data (~0:5% Click through rate) and we propose the use of ad engagement
as a success event like ad click to train the model more effectively. Our results show a good
click through conversion probability on test data.
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