Toward better weighting of anchors

Hawking, David; Upstill, Trystan; Craswell, Nick

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Toward better weighting of anchors

Date

2004

Authors

Hawking, David

Upstill, Trystan

Craswell, Nick

Abstract

Okapi BM25 scoring of anchor text surrogate documents has been shown to facilitate effective ranking in navigational search tasks over web data. We hypothesize that even better ranking can be achieved in certain important cases, particularly when anchor scores must be fused with content scores, by avoiding length normalisation and by reducing the attentuation of scores associated with high tf. Preliminary results are presented.