Does “authority” mean quality? predicting expert quality ratings of Web documents
Published 1 July 2000
Brian Amento, Loren Terveen, Will Hill
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An experimental evaluation of link analysis algorithms for their potential to identify high quality items using a dataset of web documents rated for quality by human topic experts found link-based metrics did a good job of picking out high-quality items.
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For many topics, the World Wide Web contains hundreds or thousands of relevant documents of widely varying quality. Users face a daunting challenge in identifying a small subset of documents worthy of their attention.
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