Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: Spear
Version: 1.0
Summary: The reference implementation of the SPEAR ranking algorithm in Python
Home-page: http://www.quuxlabs.com/
Author: Michael G. Noll
Author-email: michael[AT]quuxlabs[DOT]com
License: GNU General Public License version 2
Description: 
        The purpose of this implementation is to make the inner workings of
        the algorithm easy to understand and not to distract or confuse
        the reader with highly optimized code.
        
        The SPEAR algorithm takes a list of user activities on resources
        as input, and returns ranked lists of users by expertise scores
        and resources by quality scores, respectively.
        
        You can also use this library to simulate the HITS algorithm of
        Jon Kleinberg. Simply supply a credit score function C(x) = 1 to
        the SPEAR algorithm (see documentation of Spear.run()).
        
        More information about the SPEAR algorithm is available at:
        * http://www.spear-algorithm.org/
        * "Telling Experts from Spammers: Expertise Ranking in Folksonomies"
        Michael G. Noll, Ching-man Au Yeung, et al.
        SIGIR 09: Proceedings of 32nd International ACM SIGIR Conference
        on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Boston, USA,
        July 2009, pp. 612-619, ISBN 978-1-60558-483-6
        
        The code is licensed to you under version 2 of the GNU General Public
        License.
        
        Copyright 2009-2010 Michael G. Noll <http://www.michael-noll.com/>
        Ching-man Au Yeung <http://www.albertauyeung.com/>
        
        
Keywords: research SPEAR ranking folksonomies expertise HITS spam information retrieval
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX
Classifier: Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Classifier: Topic :: Sociology
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
