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CAISE
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Ranking Web Documents with Dynamic Evaluation by Expert Groups
Abstract. In spite of the wide use of the Internet, it is difficult to develop desirable web documents evaluation that reflects users’ needs. Many automatic ranking systems have ...
Sea Woo Kim, Chin-Wan Chung
NIPS
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Evaluating Search Engines by Modeling the Relationship Between Relevance and Clicks
We propose a model that leverages the millions of clicks received by web search engines to predict document relevance. This allows the comparison of ranking functions when clicks ...
Ben Carterette, Rosie Jones
CN
1999
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13 years 5 months ago
Focused Crawling: A New Approach to Topic-Specific Web Resource Discovery
The rapid growth of the World-Wide Web poses unprecedented scaling challenges for general-purpose crawlers and search engines. In this paper we describe a new hypertext resource d...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Martin van den Berg, Byron Dom
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Comparing relevance feedback algorithms for web search
We evaluate three different relevance feedback (RF) algorithms, Rocchio, Robertson/Sparck-Jones (RSJ) and Bayesian, in the context of Web search. We use a target-testing experimen...
Vishwa Vinay, Kenneth R. Wood, Natasa Milic-Frayli...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Affinity rank: a new scheme for efficient web search
Maximizing only the relevance between queries and documents will not satisfy users if they want the top search results to present a wide coverage of topics by a few representative...
Yi Liu, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Michael R. Lyu, W...