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KDD
2009
ACM
248views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
15 years 11 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
16 years 1 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
16 years 7 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 10 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
WEBI
2005
Springer
15 years 12 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...