Relational link-based ranking

  • Authors:
  • Floris Geerts;Heikki Mannila;Evimaria Terzi

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK;Basic Research Unit, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland;Basic Research Unit, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland

  • Venue:
  • VLDB '04 Proceedings of the Thirtieth international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 30
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Link analysis methods show that the interconnections between web pages have lots of valuable information. The link analysis methods are, however, inherently oriented towards analyzing binary relations. We consider the question of generalizing link analysis methods for analyzing relational databases. To this aim, we provide a generalized ranking framework and address its practical implications. More specically, we associate with each relational database and set of queries a unique weighted directed graph, which we call the database graph. We explore the properties of database graphs. In analogy to link analysis algorithms, which use the Web graph to rank web pages, we use the database graph to rank partial tuples. In this way we can, e.g., extend the PageRank link analysis algorithm to relational databases and give this extension a random querier interpretation. Similarly, we extend the HITS link analysis algorithm to relational databases. We conclude with some preliminary experimental results.