Summary: Condorcet Fusion for Improved Retrieval #
Mark Montague
Department of Computer Science
Dartmouth College
6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
Hanover, NH 03755
montague@cs.dartmouth.edu
Javed A. Aslam
Department of Computer Science
Dartmouth College
6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
Hanover, NH 03755
jaa@cs.dartmouth.edu
ABSTRACT
We present a new algorithm for improving retrieval results
by combining document ranking functions: Condorcet­fuse.
Beginning with one of the two major classes of voting proce­
dures from Social Choice Theory, the Condorcet procedure,
we apply a graph­theoretic analysis that yields a sorting­
based algorithm that is elegant, e#cient, and e#ective. The

Source: Aslam, Javed - College of Computer Science, Northeastern University

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences