Extrapolation to speed-up query-dependent link analysis ranking algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Muhammad Ali Norozi

  • Affiliations:
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Relevance is a numerical score assigned to a search result, representing how well the results meet the information needs of the user that issued the search query. Several mathematical tools and techniques have been used in research for improving the relevancy ranking models. Advanced concepts in linear algebra, such as the Singular Value Decomposition, and theory of Markov chains have also been employed for innovating relevancy ranking. This study presents the use of Extrapolation technique to speedup the convergence of query-dependent Link Analysis Ranking Algorithms. It contains a novel improvement in algorithms like HITS, SALSA and their descendants (e.g., Exponentiated and Randomized HITS) using the Extrapolation techniques. Using this approach it is possible to accelerate the algorithms in terms of reducing the number of iterations and therefore uncovered a much faster convergence. In the experiments we even got much better results than theoretically predicted. The results present a speedup to the order of 3-19 times.