Social network document ranking

Liang Gou, Xiaolong Zhang, Hung Hsuan Chen, Jung Hyun Kim, C. Lee Giles

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21 Scopus citations

Abstract

In search engines, ranking algorithms measure the importance and relevance of documents mainly based on the contents and relationships between documents. User attributes are usually not considered in ranking. This user-neutral approach, however, may not meet the diverse interests of users, who may demand different documents even with the same queries. To satisfy this need for more personalized ranking, we propose a ranking framework, Social Network Document Rank (SNDocRank), that considers both document contents and the relationship between a searcher and document owners in a social network. This method combines the traditional tf-idf ranking for document contents with our Multi-level Actor Similarity (MAS) algorithm to measure to what extent document owners and the searcher are structurally similar in a social network. We implemented our ranking method in a simulated video social network based on data extracted from YouTube and tested its effectiveness on video search. The results show that compared with the traditional ranking method like tf-idf, the SNDocRank algorithm returns more relevant documents. More specifically, a searcher can get significantly better results by being in a larger social network, having more friends, and being associated with larger local communities in a social network.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationJCDL'10 - Digital Libraries - 10 Years Past, 10 Years Forward, a 2020 Vision
Pages313-322
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event10th Annual Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2010 - Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
Duration: Jun 21 2010Jun 25 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries

Other

Other10th Annual Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, JCDL 2010
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CityGold Coast, QLD
Period6/21/106/25/10

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Information Systems
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Library and Information Sciences

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