Searching distributed collections with inference networks
SIGIR '95 Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Experiences with selecting search engines using metasearch
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Analyses of multiple evidence combination
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
On the fusion of documents from multiple collection information retrieval systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Inquirus, the NECI meta search engine
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Rank aggregation methods for the Web
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
Modeling score distributions for combining the outputs of search engines
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Fusion Via a Linear Combination of Scores
Information Retrieval
Incorporating User Preferences in Multimedia Queries
ICDT '97 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Database Theory
Comparing and aggregating rankings with ties
PODS '04 Proceedings of the twenty-third ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
Building an open source meta-search engine
WWW '05 Special interest tracks and posters of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web
Rank aggregation model for meta search: an approach using text and rank analysis measures
Intelligent information processing II
Automatic structured query transformation over distributed digital libraries
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Performance prediction of data fusion for information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Using historical data to enhance rank aggregation
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Improving high accuracy retrieval by eliminating the uneven correlation effect in data fusion
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Concave Learners for Rankboost
The Journal of Machine Learning Research
An outranking approach for rank aggregation in information retrieval
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Description Logic Programs Under Probabilistic Uncertainty and Fuzzy Vagueness
ECSQARU '07 Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty
Data Fusion in Information Retrieval Using Consensus Aggregation Operators
WI-IAT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
WI-IAT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
Combination of Documents Features Based on Simulated Click-through Data
ECIR '09 Proceedings of the 31th European Conference on IR Research on Advances in Information Retrieval
Assigning appropriate weights for the linear combination data fusion method in information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Description logic programs under probabilistic uncertainty and fuzzy vagueness
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Finding My Needle in the Haystack: Effective Personalized Re-ranking of Search Results in Prospector
EC-Web 2009 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on E-Commerce and Web Technologies
Rank Aggregation Based Text Feature Selection
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
Probabilistic latent preference analysis for collaborative filtering
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Enhancing Web Search by Aggregating Results of Related Web Queries
WISE '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering
Exploiting Social Tagging Profiles to Personalize Web Search
FQAS '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems
A new way to aggregate preferences: application to Eurovision song contests
IDA'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent data analysis
Using ontology-based user preferences to aggregate rank lists in web search
PAKDD'08 Proceedings of the 12th Pacific-Asia conference on Advances in knowledge discovery and data mining
A profile-based aggregation model in a peer-to-peer information retrieval system
Globe'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Data management in grid and peer-to-peer systems
AMT'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Active media technology
Effective rank aggregation for metasearching
Journal of Systems and Software
Information fusion for combining visual and textual image retrieval in imageCLEF@ICPR
ICPR'10 Proceedings of the 20th International conference on Recognizing patterns in signals, speech, images, and videos
Semi-supervised ranking aggregation
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
On data fusion in information retrieval using different aggregation operators
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Fusing heterogeneous modalities for video and image re-ranking
Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
Multipedia: enriching DBpedia with multimedia information
Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Knowledge capture
The nearest neighbor spearman footrule distance for bucket, interval, and partial orders
FAW-AAIM'11 Proceedings of the 5th joint international frontiers in algorithmics, and 7th international conference on Algorithmic aspects in information and management
The linear combination data fusion method in information retrieval
DEXA'11 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Database and expert systems applications - Volume Part II
Linear combination of component results in information retrieval
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Fusing Recommendations for Social Bookmarking Web Sites
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
ESWC'06 Proceedings of the 3rd European conference on The Semantic Web: research and applications
Ranking fusion methods applied to on-line handwriting information retrieval
ECIR'2010 Proceedings of the 32nd European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Probabilistic score normalization for rank aggregation
ECIR'06 Proceedings of the 28th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Comparing and aggregating partial orders with kendall tau distances
WALCOM'12 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Algorithms and computation
A paradigm for handwriting-based intelligent tutors
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
The similarity jury: combining expert judgements on geographic concepts
ER'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Advances in Conceptual Modeling
Panorama: a semantic-aware application search framework
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Extending Database Technology
Recommending collaborators using keywords
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
The nearest neighbor Spearman footrule distance for bucket, interval, and partial orders
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
Multimedia search reranking: A literature survey
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Merging algorithms for enterprise search
Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Document Computing Symposium
Feature selection for ordinal text classification
Neural Computation
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Given a set of rankings, the task of ranking fusion is the problem of combining these lists in such a way to optimize the performance of the combination. The ranking fusion problem is encountered in many situations and, e.g., metasearch is a prominent one. It deals with the problem of combining the result lists returned by multiple search engines in response to a given query, where each item in a result list is ordered with respect to a search engine and a relevance score. Several ranking fusion methods have been proposed in the literature. They can be classified based on whether: (i) they rely on the rank; (ii) they rely on the score; and (iii) they require training data or not. Our paper will make the following contributions: (i) we will report experimental results for the Markov chain rank based methods, for which no large experimental tests have yet been made; (ii) while it is believed that the rank based method, named Borda Count, is competitive with score based methods, we will show that this is not true for metasearch; and (iii) we will show that Markov chain based methods compete with score based methods. This is especially important in the context of metasearch as scores are usually not available from the search engines.