Ranking academic event related search results using event member metrics

• US 20070136272A1
• Filed: 12/14/2005
• Published: 06/14/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.), National Semiconductor Corporation (Texas Instruments, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: National Semiconductor Corporation (Texas Instruments, Inc.)
• Inventors: Tveit, Amund
• Granted Patent: US 8,489,614 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

A system receives a search query related to an academic event of multiple academic events, the academic event having a committee with one or more members. The system searches a corpus of documents associated with the multiple academic events based on the search query to produce a set of search result documents. The system ranks the set of search result documents based on metrics associated with the one or more committee members of the academic event.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

determining members of a committee of an event;

obtaining metrics associated with the committee members; and

ranking documents associated with the event among other documents based on the obtained metrics.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the event comprises an academic event.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the academic event comprises one of a conference, workshop, or journal.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the committee members include program or editorial committee members of the academic event.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the obtained metrics include a number of the committee members of the academic event.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the obtained metrics include an average number of paper citations associated with each of the committee members.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the obtained metrics include a sum of paper citations for all of the committee members of the academic event.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the obtained metrics includes a percentage of the committee members that have written one or more papers for past years of the academic event.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein the obtained metrics include an average number of papers written by the committee members of the academic event.

10. The method of claim 2, wherein the obtained metrics include a number of academic events in which each of the committee members participate.

11. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

obtaining parameters associated with committee members of a plurality of academic events; and

determining scores for ranking results of a search for one or more of the plurality of academic events based on the obtained parameters.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the results of the search include articles or papers associated with the one or more of the plurality of academic events, and wherein ranking the results includes ranking the articles or papers among one another based on the determined scores.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of academic events comprise conferences, workshops, or journals.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the committee members include program or editorial committee members of the plurality of academic events.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the obtained parameters include at least one of the following:

a number of the committee members of each of the plurality of academic events;

an average number of paper citations for each of the committee members;

a sum of paper citations for all committee members of each of the plurality of academic events;

a percentage of the committee members of a given academic event that have written one or more papers for past years of the plurality of academic events;

an average number of papers written by the committee members of each of the plurality of academic events; and

a number of academic events of the plurality of academic events in which each of the committee members participate.

16. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

determining a plurality of metrics associated with committee members of an academic event;

assigning a score to the academic event based on the plurality of metrics; and

using the assigned score to rank a document associated with the academic event among other documents.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the academic event comprises a conference, workshop, or journal.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the committee members include program or editorial committee members of the academic event.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein assigning a score to the academic event comprises:

functionally combining the plurality of metrics to assign the score.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein functionally combining the plurality of metrics comprises:

using the function

$\mathrm{score}=\underset{l}{\sum <br><br>}<br><br>w_l<br><br>E_l$

to assign the score, wherein score equals the assigned score, E_l equals each metric of the plurality of metrics, and w_l equals a weight value assigned to each metric of the plurality of metrics.

21. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving a search query related to an academic event of a plurality of academic events, the academic event having a committee with one or more members;

searching a corpus of documents associated with the plurality of academic events based on the search query to produce a set of search result documents; and

ranking the set of search result documents based on metrics associated with the one or more committee members of the academic event.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the academic event comprises one of a conference, workshop, or journal.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the one or more committee members include program or editorial committee members of the academic event.

24. The method of claim 21, wherein the obtained metrics include at least one of the following:

a number of the committee members of the academic event;

an average number of paper citations each of the one or more committee members;

a sum of paper citations for all of the one or more committee members of the academic event;

a percentage of the one or more committee members that have written one or more papers for past years of the academic event;

an average number of papers written by the one or more committee members of the academic event; and

a number of academic events in which each of the one or more committee members participate.

25. A system, comprising:

means for determining parameters associated with committee members of a plurality of academic events; and

means for determining scores for ranking results of a search for one or more of the plurality of academic events based on the determined parameters.

26. A computer-readable medium that stores computer-executable instructions, comprising:

instructions for determining members of a committee of an academic event;

instructions for obtaining metrics associated with the committee members; and

instructions for ranking documents associated with the academic event among other documents based on the obtained metrics.

27. A system, comprising:

a memory to aggregate a corpus of documents related to a plurality of academic events; and

a processing unit to;

determine a plurality of metrics associated with committee members of an academic event of the plurality of academic events,

assign a score to the academic event based on the plurality of metrics, and

use the assigned score to rank a document associated with the academic event among other documents of the corpus of documents.

28. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

obtaining metrics directly associated with a plurality of events; and

ranking the plurality of events among one another based on the obtained metrics.

29. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

ranking documents associated with the plurality of events based on the obtained metrics.

30. The method of claim 28, wherein the plurality of events comprise academic events.

31. The method of claim 28, wherein the metrics directly associated with the plurality of events comprise one or more of the following:

information regarding a number of years each of the plurality of events has been arranged or published;

important topics associated with the plurality of events;

an identification of the publisher associated with the plurality of events;

dates associated with each of the plurality of events;

other events corresponding to each of the plurality of events;

Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) to a web page associated with each of the plurality of events or to pages associated with event committee members of each of the plurality of events;

descriptions/abstracts describing the plurality of events and their scope;

registration fees and instructions for each of the plurality of events;

addresses associated with each of the plurality of events; and

an identification of a sponsoring institution for each of the plurality of events.

32. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

determining members of a committee of an event;

obtaining metrics associated with the committee members; and

ranking the event among other events based on the obtained metrics.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein the event comprises an academic event.

34. The method of claim 32, wherein the academic event comprises one of a conference, workshop, or journal.

35. The method of claim 34, wherein the committee members include program or editorial committee members of the academic event.