Methods for Web link analysis and authority ranking such as PageRank are based on the assumption that a user endorses a Web page when creating a hyperlink to this page. There is a...
Work on evaluating and improving the relevance of web search engines typically use human relevance judgments or clickthrough data. Both these methods look at the problem of learni...
Hao Ma, Raman Chandrasekar, Chris Quirk, Abhishek ...
The User-over-Ranking hypothesis states that rather the user herself than a web search engine’s ranking algorithm can help to improve retrieval performance. The means are longer ...
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Web link analysis has proven to be a significant enhancement for quality based web search. Most existing links can be classified into two categories: intra-type links (e.g., web h...