Pseudo-anchor text extraction for searching vertical objects

  • Authors:
  • Shuming Shi;Fei Xing;Mingjie Zhu;Zaiqing Nie;Ji-Rong Wen

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China;Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China;University of Science and Technology of China;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China;Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • CIKM '06 Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper examines the problem of utilizing pseudo-anchor text to help ranking Web objects in vertical search. We adopt a machine learning based approach to extract pseudo-anchor text for a vertical object from its candidate anchor blocks. Experiments in academic search domain indicate that our approach is able to dramatically improve search performance.