Ranking a number of retrieval systems according to their retrieval effectiveness without relying on costly relevance judgments was first explored by Soboroff et al [6]. Over th...
Claudia Hauff, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong,...
This paper presents a simple approach to the Wikipedia Question Answering pilot task in CLEF 2006. The approach ranks the snippets, retrieved using the Lucene search engine, by mea...
The assumptions underlying the Probability Ranking Principle (PRP) have led to a number of alternative approaches that cater or compensate for the PRP’s limitations. In this pos...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, C. J. van Rijsbergen
A recently published approach to adaptive page rank, using the solution of quadratic optimization methods with a set of simple constraints [3], is modified to permit classificatio...
Franco Scarselli, Ah Chung Tsoi, Markus Hagenbuchn...
Web spam is behavior that attempts to deceive search engine ranking algorithms. TrustRank is a recent algorithm that can combat web spam. However, TrustRank is vulnerable in the s...