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Navigating through a hypermedia retrieval system bears the problem of selecting an item from a large number of options available to continue the trajectory. Ranking these options according to some criterion is a method to ease the task of navigation. A number of ranking strategies have already been proposed. This paper presents a formalization of the concept of ranking, and of the aforementioned strategies. Furthermore we propose two strategies allowing a personalized approach to ranking.
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Berger, F., van Bommel, P. & van der Weide, T. Ranking Strategies for Navigation Based Query Formulation. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems 12, 5–25 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026412702628
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