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ALENEX
2009
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13 years 7 months ago
Rank Aggregation: Together We're Strong
We consider the problem of finding a ranking of a set of elements that is "closest to" a given set of input rankings of the elements; more precisely, we want to find a p...
Frans Schalekamp, Anke van Zuylen
WAW
2007
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Distribution of PageRank Mass Among Principle Components of the Web
We study the PageRank mass of principal components in a bow-tie Web Graph, as a function of the damping factor c. Using a singular perturbation approach, we show that the PageRank ...
Konstantin Avrachenkov, Nelly Litvak, Kim Son Pham
AAAI
2008
13 years 12 months ago
Semi-Supervised Ensemble Ranking
Ranking plays a central role in many Web search and information retrieval applications. Ensemble ranking, sometimes called meta-search, aims to improve the retrieval performance b...
Steven C. H. Hoi, Rong Jin
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 11 months ago
A Deeper Investigation of PageRank as a Function of the Damping Factor
PageRank is defined as the stationary state of a Markov chain. The chain is obtained by perturbing the transition matrix induced by a web graph with a damping factor α that spre...
Paolo Boldi, Massimo Santini, Sebastiano Vigna
EMNLP
2009
13 years 7 months ago
Empirical Exploitation of Click Data for Task Specific Ranking
There have been increasing needs for task specific rankings in web search such as rankings for specific query segments like long queries, time-sensitive queries, navigational quer...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Shihao Ji, Ciya Liao, Xin Li...