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Diversity in Ranking using Negative Reinforcement

Information Retrieval 2015-03-20 v1 Artificial Intelligence Social and Information Networks

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the problem of diversity in ranking of the nodes in a graph. The task is to pick the top-k nodes in the graph which are both 'central' and 'diverse'. Many graph-based models of NLP like text summarization, opinion summarization involve the concept of diversity in generating the summaries. We develop a novel method which works in an iterative fashion based on random walks to achieve diversity. Specifically, we use negative reinforcement as a main tool to introduce diversity in the Personalized PageRank framework. Experiments on two benchmark datasets show that our algorithm is competitive to the existing methods.

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@article{arxiv.1207.6600,
  title  = {Diversity in Ranking using Negative Reinforcement},
  author = {Rama Badrinath and C. E. Veni Madhavan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.6600},
  year   = {2015}
}
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