Efficient Diversification of Web Search Results

Summary: Unified framework to assess efficiency of web result diversification, using a query-refinement based ambiguity detector. Introduces OptSelect, a fast diversification algorithm that outpaces IASelect and xQuAD by orders of magnitude with comparable effectiveness, evaluated on TREC Web. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10274
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 6.6072828e-05
Overall Rank: 3,942 | 72.61%
DOI: -

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,474	Top-k Bounded Diversification	2012	SIGMOD	8.6956353e-05
4,060	On the Complexity of Query Result Diversification	2013	VLDB	6.4840236e-05
6,085	Answering Top-k Representative Queries on Graph Databases	2014	SIGMOD	5.2165029e-05
12,107	Efficient Indexing for Diverse Query Results	2013	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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