TY - GEN
T1 - Selective hypertext induced topic search
AU - Awekar, Amit C.
AU - Mitra, Pabitra
AU - Kang, Jaewoo
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - We address the problem of answering broad-topic queries on the World Wide Web. We present a link based analysis al-gorithm SelHITS, which is an improvement over Kleinberg's HITS [2] algorithm. We introduce the concept of virtual links to exploit the latent information in the hyperlinked environment. We propose a novel approach to calculate hub and authority values. We also present a selective expan-sion method which avoids topic drift and provides results consistent with only one interpretation of the query, even if the query is ambiguous. Initial experimental evaluation and user feedback show that our algorithm indeed distills the most important and relevant pages for broad-topic queries. We also infer that there exists a uniform notion of quality of search results within users.
AB - We address the problem of answering broad-topic queries on the World Wide Web. We present a link based analysis al-gorithm SelHITS, which is an improvement over Kleinberg's HITS [2] algorithm. We introduce the concept of virtual links to exploit the latent information in the hyperlinked environment. We propose a novel approach to calculate hub and authority values. We also present a selective expan-sion method which avoids topic drift and provides results consistent with only one interpretation of the query, even if the query is ambiguous. Initial experimental evaluation and user feedback show that our algorithm indeed distills the most important and relevant pages for broad-topic queries. We also infer that there exists a uniform notion of quality of search results within users.
KW - Link analysis
KW - Searching
KW - Topic distillation
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U2 - 10.1145/1135777.1135996
DO - 10.1145/1135777.1135996
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34250654941
SN - 1595933239
SN - 9781595933232
T3 - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on World Wide Web
SP - 1023
EP - 1024
BT - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on World Wide Web
T2 - 15th International Conference on World Wide Web
Y2 - 23 May 2006 through 26 May 2006
ER -