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Capturing page freshness for web search

Published: 19 July 2010 Publication History

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Freshness has been increasingly realized by commercial search engines as an important criteria for measuring the quality of search results. However, most information retrieval methods focus on the relevance of page content to given queries without considering the recency issue. In this work, we mine page freshness from web user maintenance activities and incorporate this feature into web search. We first quantify how fresh the web is over time from two distinct perspectives--the page itself and its in-linked pages--and then exploit a temporal correlation between two types of freshness measures to quantify the confidence of page freshness. Results demonstrate page freshness can be better quantified when combining with temporal freshness correlation. Experiments on a real-world archival web corpus show that incorporating the combined page freshness into the searching process can improve ranking performance significantly on both relevance and freshness.

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    SIGIR '10: Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
    July 2010
    944 pages
    ISBN:9781450301534
    DOI:10.1145/1835449
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    1. temporal correlation
    2. web freshness
    3. web search

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    • (2013)What is the Value of Information - Search Engine’s Point of ViewComputer Information Systems and Industrial Management10.1007/978-3-642-40925-7_1(1-12)Online publication date: 2013
    • (2012)Implications for Website Trust and Credibility AssessmentInternational Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation10.4018/jeei.20121001023:4(17-33)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2012

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