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ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Modeling Expected Utility of Multi-session Information Distillation
Abstract. An open challenge in information distillation is the evaluation and optimization of the utility of ranked lists with respect to flexible user interactions over multiple ...
Yiming Yang, Abhimanyu Lad
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
PageRank: Splitting Homogeneous Singular Linear Systems of Index One
Abstract. The PageRank algorithm is used today within web information retrieval to provide a content-neutral ranking metric over web pages. It employs power method iterations to so...
Douglas V. de Jager, Jeremy T. Bradley
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Quantum Probability Ranking Principle for Information Retrieval
Abstract. While the Probability Ranking Principle for Information Retrieval provides the basis for formal models, it makes a very strong assumption regarding the dependence between...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
What's in a Link? From Document Importance to Topical Relevance
Web information retrieval is best known for its use of the Web’s link structure as a source of evidence. Global link evidence is by nature query-independent, and is therefore no ...
Marijn Koolen, Jaap Kamps