QR2: A Third-party Query Reranking Service Over Web Databases
Yeshwanth D. Gunasekaran, Abolfazl Asudeh, Sona Hasani, Nan Zhang, Ali, Jaoua, Gautam Das
TL;DR
QR2 is a third-party service that allows users to rerank web database search results dynamically using custom ranking functions, overcoming limitations of native database ranking mechanisms.
Contribution
It introduces a novel third-party reranking service that works solely through public web database interfaces, enabling flexible, user-defined ranking on-the-fly.
Findings
Supports arbitrary user-defined ranking functions
Operates solely via public web interfaces
Enables flexible, real-time query reranking
Abstract
The ranked retrieval model has rapidly become the de-facto way for search query processing in web databases. Despite the extensive efforts on designing better ranking mechanisms, in practice, many such databases fail to address the diverse and sometimes contradicting preferences of users. In this paper, we present QR2, a third-party service that uses nothing but the public search interface of a web database and enables the on-the-fly processing of queries with any user-specified ranking functions, no matter if the ranking function is supported by the database or not.
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