Title: A semantic self-organising webpage-ranking algorithm using computational geometry across different knowledge domains

Authors: Marios Poulos, Sozon Papavlasopoulos, V.S. Belesiotis, Nikolaos Korfiatis

Addresses: Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Ioannou Theotoki 72, 49100, Corfu, Greece. ' Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Ioannou Theotoki 72, 49100, Corfu, Greece. ' Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, 80 Karaoli and Dimitriou Str., Piraeus 18534, Greece. ' Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), 2300, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark

Abstract: In this paper we introduce a method for Web page-ranking, based on computational geometry to evaluate and test by examples, order relationships among web pages belonging to different knowledge domains. The goal is, through an organising procedure, to learn from these examples a real-valued ranking function that induces ranking via a convexity feature. We consider the problem of self-organising learning from numerical data to be represented by a well-fitted convex polygon procedure, in which the vertices correspond to descriptors representing domains of web pages. Results and statistical evaluation of procedure show that the proposed method may be characterised as accurate.

Keywords: web page ranking; semantic self-organising learning; web pages; internet; computational geometry; information retrieval; educational applications; knowledge domains.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKWI.2009.027924

International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence, 2009 Vol.1 No.1/2, pp.24 - 47

Published online: 19 Aug 2009 *

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