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Submitted on 29th of October 2007
Author Antonellis, Ioannis; Garcia-Molina, Hector; Chang, Chi-chao
Title Simrank++: Query rewriting through link analysis of the click graph
Date of publication 2007
Citation Antonellis, Ioannis; Garcia-Molina, Hector; Chang, Chi-chao. Simrank++: Query rewriting through link analysis of the click graph,
Number of pages 25
Language English
Project Stanford InfoLab
Type Technical Report
Subject group Data Mining; Databases and the Web; Digital Libraries
Abstract We focus on the problem of query rewriting for sponsored search. We base rewrites on a historical click graph that records the ads that have been clicked on in response to past user queries. Given a query q, we first consider Simrank as a way to identify queries similar to q, i.e., queries whose ads a user may be interested in. We argue that Simrank fails to properly identify query similarities in our application, and we present two enhanced version of Simrank: one that exploits weights on click graph edges and another that exploits ``evidence.'' We experimentally evaluate our new schemes against Simrank, using actual click graphs and queries form Yahoo!, and using a variety of metrics. Our results show that the enhanced methods can yield more and better query rewrites.
Keywords Simrank++, query rewriting, sponsored search, link analysis, click graph, random walks
Contact address Ioannis Antonellis
Computer Science Department
353 Serra Mall, Gates bldg.
Room 432
Stanford, California 94305-9045
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