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SIGECOM
2005
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Ranking systems: the PageRank axioms
This paper initiates research on the foundations of ranking systems, a fundamental ingredient of basic e-commerce and Internet Technologies. In order to understand the essence and...
Alon Altman, Moshe Tennenholtz
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Graceful service degradation (or, how to know your payment is late)
When distributing digital content over a broadcast channel it’s often necessary to revoke users whose access privileges have expired, thus preventing them from recovering the co...
Alexandr Andoni, Jessica Staddon
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
An exploration of axiomatic approaches to information retrieval
Existing retrieval models generally do not offer any guarantee for optimal retrieval performance. Indeed, it is even difficult, if not impossible, to predict a model’s empirica...
Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
A Markov random field model for term dependencies
This paper develops a general, formal framework for modeling term dependencies via Markov random fields. The model allows for arbitrary text features to be incorporated as eviden...
Donald Metzler, W. Bruce Croft
SIGIR
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Relevance information: a loss of entropy but a gain for IDF?
When investigating alternative estimates for term discriminativeness, we discovered that relevance information and idf are much closer related than formulated in classical literat...
Arjen P. de Vries, Thomas Rölleke