We present a novel link-based ranking algorithm RBS, which may be viewed as an extension of PageRank by back-step feature. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Se...
In this paper, we demonstrate a novel landmark photo search and browsing system, Agate, which ranks landmark image search results considering their relevance, diversity and qualit...
Yuheng Ren, Mo Yu, Xin-Jing Wang, Lei Zhang, Wei-Y...
In information retrieval, the cluster hypothesis states: closely related documents tend to be relevant to the same request. We exploit this hypothesis directly by adjusting queryb...
In this paper, we introduce a geographic similarity operator that computes the relatedness between two geographic places and describe how it is combined with textual ranking. The ...
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimizing the retrieval quality of search engines using clickthrough data. Intuitively, a good information retrieval system shoul...