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Improve ranking by using image information

  • Qing Yu
  • , Shuming Shi
  • , Zhiwei Li
  • , Ji-Rong Wen
  • , Wei-Ying Ma

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

Abstract

This paper explores the feasibility of including image information embedded in Web pages in relevance computation to improve search performance. In determining the ranking of Web pages against a given query, most (if not all) modern Web search engines consider two kinds of factors: text information (including title, URL, body text, anchor text, etc) and static ranking (e.g. PageRank [1]). Although images have been widely used to help represent Web pages and carry valuable information, little work has been done to take advantage of them in computing the relevance score of a Web page given a query. We propose, in this paper, a framework to contain image information in ranking functions. Preliminary experimental results show that, when image information is used properly, ranking results can be improved. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Information Retrieval - 29th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2007, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages645-652
Volume4425 LNCS
ISBN (Print)3540714944, 9783540714941
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event29th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2007 - Rome, Italy
Duration: 2 Apr 20075 Apr 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4425 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference29th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2007
PlaceItaly
CityRome
Period2/04/075/04/07

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Research Keywords

  • Image importance
  • Image information
  • Relevance
  • Web search

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