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ASUNAM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Harnessing Wisdom of the Crowds Dynamics for Time-Dependent Reputation and Ranking
—The “wisdom of the crowds” is a concept used to describe the utility of harnessing group behaviour, where user opinion evolves over time and the opinion of the masses collec...
Elizabeth M. Daly
SIGIR
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Ready to buy or just browsing?: detecting web searcher goals from interaction data
An improved understanding of the relationship between search intent, result quality, and searcher behavior is crucial for improving the effectiveness of web search. While recent p...
Qi Guo, Eugene Agichtein
WWW
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Topical TrustRank: using topicality to combat web spam
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...
Baoning Wu, Vinay Goel, Brian D. Davison
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Is question answering an acquired skill?
We present a question answering (QA) system which learns how to detect and rank answer passages by analyzing questions and their answers (QA pairs) provided as training data. We b...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Soumen Chakrabarti, Deepa Par...
WSDM
2009
ACM
191views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Generating labels from clicks
The ranking function used by search engines to order results is learned from labeled training data. Each training point is a (query, URL) pair that is labeled by a human judge who...
Rakesh Agrawal, Alan Halverson, Krishnaram Kenthap...