ONLINE INFORMATION REVIEW, cilt.31, sa.4, ss.491-515, 2007 (SCI-Expanded)
Purpose - One of the most important dimensions of search engine user information seeking behaviour is content-based behaviour. One of the main elements in developing a personalised intelligent search engine is new topic identification. The purpose of this study is to perform automatic new topic identification in search engine transaction logs using conditional probabilities of new topic arrivals.