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Submitted on 16th of June 2008
Author Antonellis, Ioannis; Garcia-Molina, Hector; Chang, Chi-Chao
Title Simrank++: Query Rewriting through Link Analysis of the Click Graph
Date of publication 16th of June 2008
Published in 34th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2008), Auckland, New Zealand, 24-30, August, 2008
Citation Antonellis, Ioannis; Garcia-Molina, Hector; Chang, Chi-Chao. Simrank++: Query Rewriting through Link Analysis of the Click Graph, 34th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2008), Auckland, New Zealand, 24-30, August, 2008
Number of pages 14
Language English
Project Stanford InfoLab
Type Conference or Journal Paper
Subject group Data Mining
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 versions 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 from Yahoo!, and using a variety of metrics. Our results show that the enhanced methods can yield more and better query rewrites.
Keywords simrank++, simrank, query rewriting, link analysis, sponsored search, advertising, click graph, click logs, wisdom of the crowds
Contact address http://www.stanford.edu/~antonell
Notes conference version of publication 2007-32
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