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The Best Trail Algorithm for Assisted Navigation of Web Sites

Richard Wheeldon, Mark Levene

cs.DSarXiv:cs/0306122

Abstract

We present an algorithm called the Best Trail Algorithm, which helps solve the hypertext navigation problem by automating the construction of memex-like trails through the corpus. The algorithm performs a probabilistic best-first expansion of a set of navigation trees to find relevant and compact trails. We describe the implementation of the algorithm, scoring methods for trails, filtering algorithms and a new metric called potential gain which measures the potential of a page for future navigation opportunities.

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