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KDD
2009
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
PSkip: estimating relevance ranking quality from web search clickthrough data
1 In this article, we report our efforts in mining the information encoded as clickthrough data in the server logs to evaluate and monitor the relevance ranking quality of a commer...
Kuansan Wang, Toby Walker, Zijian Zheng
CIKM
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
A machine learning approach for improved BM25 retrieval
Despite the widespread use of BM25, there have been few studies examining its effectiveness on a document description over single and multiple field combinations. We determine t...
Krysta Marie Svore, Christopher J. C. Burges
WWW
2003
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
A new paradigm for ranking pages on the world wide web
This paper describes a new paradigm for modeling traffic levels on the world wide web (WWW) using a method of entropy maximization. This traffic is subject to the conservation con...
John A. Tomlin
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 2 months ago
On statistical analysis and optimization of information retrieval effectiveness metrics
This paper presents a new way of thinking for IR metric optimization. It is argued that the optimal ranking problem should be factorized into two distinct yet interrelated stages:...
Jun Wang, Jianhan Zhu
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WEBI
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
WICER: A Weighted Inter-Cluster Edge Ranking for Clustered Graphs
Several algorithms based on link analysis have been developed to measure the importance of nodes on a graph such as pages on the World Wide Web. PageRank and HITS are the most pop...
Divya Padmanabhan, Prasanna Kumar Desikan, Jaideep...