Sciweavers

785 search results - page 85 / 157
» A Framework for Decentralized Ranking in Web Information Ret...
Sort
View
AIRWEB
2007
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Measuring Similarity to Detect Qualified Links
The early success of link-based ranking algorithms was predicated on the assumption that links imply merit of the target pages. However, today many links exist for purposes other ...
Xiaoguang Qi, Lan Nie, Brian D. Davison
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Understanding the relationship between searchers' queries and information goals
We describe results from Web search log studies aimed at elucidating user behaviors associated with queries and destination URLs that appear with different frequencies. We note th...
Doug Downey, Susan T. Dumais, Daniel J. Liebling, ...
ICML
2008
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Query-level stability and generalization in learning to rank
This paper is concerned with the generalization ability of learning to rank algorithms for information retrieval (IR). We point out that the key for addressing the learning proble...
Yanyan Lan, Tie-Yan Liu, Tao Qin, Zhiming Ma, Hang...
CIKM
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Empirical justification of the gain and discount function for nDCG
The nDCG measure has proven to be a popular measure of retrieval effectiveness utilizing graded relevance judgments. However, a number of different instantiations of nDCG exist, d...
Evangelos Kanoulas, Javed A. Aslam
WWW
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A framework for determining necessary query set sizes to evaluate web search effectiveness
We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Ophir Frieder, ...