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479.9   Searching the World Wide Web - Lawrence, Giles (1998)   (Correct)
The coverage and recency of the major World Wide Web search engines was analyzed, yielding some surprising results. The coverage of any one engine is significantly limited: No single engine indexes mo... / logs of their Meta- Crawler meta search service in be- cause br of the major World Wide Web search engines was analyzed yielding some

268.5   Web Document Clustering: A Feasibility Demonstration - Zamir, Etzioni (1998)   (Correct)
Users of Web search engines are often forced to sift through the long ordered list of document "snippets" returned by the engines. The IR community has explored document clustering as an alternative ... / the output of the MetaCrawler meta search engine Selberg and Etzioni br Abstract Users of Web search engines are often forced to sift

208.5   STARTS: Stanford Proposal for Internet Meta-Searching - Gravano, Chang.. (1997)   (Correct)
Document sources are available everywhere, both within the internal networks of organizations and on the Internet. Even individual organizations use search engines from different vendors to index thei... / organizations can benefit from metasearchers which are services that br Stanford Proposal for Internet Meta-Searching Luis Gravano

172.7   An Efficient Boosting Algorithm for Combining Preferences - Iyer, Jr. (1999)   (Correct)
The problem of combining preferences arises in several applications, such as combining the results of di erent search engines. This work describes an eÆcient algorithm for combining multiple preferenc... / search strategies. Examples of metasearch engines include MetaCrawler br evaluation of RankBoost . Meta-search .

142.8   Improving Category Specific Web Search by Learning Query Modifications - Glover, Flake, Lawrence, Birmingham, .. (2001)   (Correct)
Users looking for documents within specific categories may have a difficult time locating valuable documents using general purpose search engines. We present an automated method for learning query mod... / this approach we have developed metasearch tools to effectively retrieve br documents using general purpose search engines. We present an automated

136.3   Learning to Order Things - Cohen, Schapire, al. (1999)   (Correct)
There are many applications in which it is desirable to order rather than classify instances. Here we consider the problem of learning how to order instances given feedback in the form of preference j... / Finally we show how metasearch can be formulated as an br expansion strategy for a web search engine. . Introduction Work in

131.9   SavvySearch: A Meta-Search Engine that Learns which Search Engines to .. - Howe, Dreilinger (1997)   (Correct)
Search engines are among the most successful applications on the Web today. So many search engines have been created that it is difficult for users to know where they are, how to use them and what top... / for meta-search engines so metasearch engines should become a means br SavvySearch A Meta-Search Engine that Learns which

128.5   Topical Locality in the Web - Davison (2000)   (Correct)
Most web pages are linked to others with related content. This idea, combined with another that says that text in, and possibly around, HTML anchors describe the pages to which they point, is the foun... / and D. Dreilinger. SavvySearch A MetaSearch Engine that Learns Which Search br of use to web indexers meta-search tools and to human browsers of

119.1   Experiences with Selecting Search Engines using Meta-Search - Dreilinger (1997)   (Correct)
Search engines are among the most useful and high profile resources on the Internet. The problem of finding information on the Internet has been replaced with the problem of knowing where search engin... / Selecting Search Engines using Meta-Search Daniel Dreilinger MIT Media br Experiences with Selecting Search Engines using Meta-Search Daniel

119.1   Experiences with Selecting Search Engines Using Metasearch - Dreilinger (1997)   (Correct)
This article describes and evaluates SavvySearch, a metasearch engine designed to intelligently select and interface with multiple remote search engines. The primary metasearch issue examined is the i... / Selecting Search Engines Using Metasearch Daniel Dreilinger Mit Media

118.1   Grouper: A Dynamic Clustering Interface to Web Search Results - Zamir, Etzioni (1999)   (Correct)
Users of Web search engines are often forced to sift through the long ordered list of document "snippets" returned by the engines. The IR community has explored document clustering as an alternative m... / to the results of the HuskySearch meta-search engine which dynamically br Abstract Users of Web search engines are often forced to sift

97.1   Context and Page Analysis for Improved Web Search - Lawrence, Giles (1998)   (Correct)
NEC Research Institute has developed a metasearch engine that improves the efficiency of Web searches by downloading and analyzing each document and then displaying results that show the query terms i... / Institute has developed a metasearch engine that improves the br S everal popular and useful search engines-such as AltaVista Excite

95.6   Amalthaea: Information Discovery and Filtering using a Multiagent.. - Moukas (1996)   (Correct)
Agents are semi-intelligent programs that assist the user in performing repetitive and time-consuming tasks. Information discovery and information filtering are a suitable domain for applying agent te... / indexing engines and perform a meta-search in order to discover br and Related Work . Search Engines New tools like search

85.7   Rank Aggregation Methods for the Web - Dwork, Kumar, Naor, Sivakumar (2001)   (Correct)
We consider the problem of combining ranking results from various sources. In the context of the Web, the main applications include building meta-search engines, combining ranking functions, selecting... / aggregation ranking functions metasearch multi-word queries spam . br applications include building meta-search engines combining ranking

85.7   Modeling Score Distributions for Combining the Outputs of Search.. - Manmatha, Rath, Feng (2001)   (Correct)
In this paper the score distributions of a number of text search engines are modeled. It is shown empirically that the score distributions on a per query basis may be fitted using an exponential distr... / and M. Montague. Bayes optimal metasearch A probabilistic model for br of different search engines the meta-search problem Most combination

85.7   Information Retrieval on the Web - Kobayashi, Takeda (2000)   (Correct)
In this paper we review studies on the growth of the Internet and technologies which are useful for information search and retrieval on the Web. We present data on the Internet from several di erent s... / have studied prototype metasearchers i.e.services which combine br . User interfaces . . Meta-search navigators . . Web-based

68.0   Visual Information Retrieval from Large Distributed On-line.. - Chang, Smith, Beigi, Benitez (1997)   (Correct)
ion --- Images may be indexed at various levels, including feature (e.g., color, texture, and shape), object (e.g., moving foreground object), syntax (e.g., video shot), and semantics (e.g., image sub... / domain. Second the idea of meta-search system for VIR has been br a prototype meta image search MetaSEEk for proof of concept

57.1   Towards a Highly-Scalable and Effective Metasearch Engine - Wu (2001)   (Correct)
A metasearch engine is a system that supports unified access to multiple local search engines. Database selection is one of the main challenges in building a large-scale metasearch engine. The problem... / a Highly-Scalable and Effective Metasearch Engine Zonghuan Wu

57.1   WebSail: From On-line Learning to Web Search - Chen, Meng, Zhu, Fowler (2000)   (Correct)
In this paper we investigate the applicability of on-line learning algorithms to the real-world problem of web search. Consider that web documents are indexed using n Boolean features. We first presen... / of the top matched documents. the MetaSearcher has a parser and an indexer br A is very small especially when meta-search is concerned. For example in

45.4   Searching the Web: General and Scientific Information Access - Lawrence, Giles (1999)   (Correct)
The World Wide Web has revolutionized the way that people access information, and has opened up new possibilities in areas such as digital libraries, general and scientific information dissemination a... / results and new techniques in metasearch that can improve the efficiency br much room for improvement -search engines do not provide comprehensive

45.4   Architecture of a Metasearch Engine that Supports User Information.. - Glover, Lawrence, Birmingham, Giles (1999)   (Correct)
When a query is submitted to a metasearch engine, decisions are made with respect to the underlying search engines to be used, what modifications will be made to the query, and how to score the result... / ACM Architecture of a Metasearch Engine that Supports User br with respect to the underlying search engines to be used what

44.4   Comparing Top k Lists - Fagin, Sivakumar (2003)   (Correct)
Motivated by several applications, we introduce various distance measures between "top k lists." Some of these distance measures are metrics, while others are not. For each of these latter distance ... / the degree to which the metasearch engine aligns itself with each br can be used to compare a meta-search engine with each of its

42.8   Web Search -- Your Way - Glover, Lawrence, Gordon.. (2000)   (Correct)
We describe a metasearch engine architecture, in use at NEC Research Institute, that allows users to provide preferences in the form of an information need category. This extra information is used to ... / judgments We describe a metasearch engine architecture in use at br users. Unlike typical search or metasearch engines our

42.8   Concept Hierarchy Based Text Database Categorization - Meng, Wang, Sun, Yu (2000)   (Correct)
Document categorization as a technique to improve the retrieval of useful documents has been extensively investigated. One important issue in a large-scale metasearch engine is to select text database... / important issue in a large-scale metasearch engine is to select text br data in the Internet many search engines have been created. Each

40.0   MySpiders : Evolve your own intelligent Web crawlers - Pant, Menczer (2002)   (Correct)
The dynamic nature of the World Wide Web makes it a challenge to find information that is both relevant and recent. Intelligent agents can complement the power of search engines to meet this challenge... / the coverage issue is the use of meta-search techniques to combine relevant br can complement the power of search engines to meet this challenge. We

40.0   Locality in Search Engine Queries and Its Implications for Caching - Xie, O'Hallaron (2002)   (Correct)
Caching is a popular technique for reducing both server load and user response time in distributed systems. In this paper, we consider the question of whether caching might be effective for search eng... / Those users are very likely to be metasearch engines or robots instead of br Vivisimo is a clustering meta-search engine that organizes the

39.9   Using Relevance Feedback In Contentbased Image Metasearch - Benitez (1998)   (Correct)
this article with a review of the issues in content-based visual query, then describe the current MetaSeek implementation. We present the results of experiments that evaluated the implementation in co... / MetaSeek is an image metasearch engine developed to explore the br of online documents and search engines in the past few years has

38.2   MetaSEEk: A Content-Based Meta-Search Engine for Images - Beigi, Benitez, Chang (1997)   (Correct)
Search engines are the most powerful resources for finding information on the rapidly expanding World Wide Web (WWW). Finding the desired search engines and learning how to use them, however, can be v... / select target search engines. The metasearch engines may also keep track of br MetaSEEk A Content-Based Meta-Search Engine for Images Mandis

36.3   Estimating the Usefulness of Search Engines - Weiyi Meng (1999)   (Correct)
In this paper, we present a statistical method to estimate the usefulness of a search engine for any given query. The estimates can be used by a metasearch engine to choose local search engines to inv... / The estimates can be used by a metasearch engine to choose local search br Estimating the Usefulness of Search Engines Weiyi Meng

36.3   Efficient and Effective Metasearch for a Large Number of Text.. - Yu, Meng, Liu, Wu, Rishe (1999)   (Correct)
Metasearch engines can be used to facilitate ordinary users for retrieving information from multiple local sources (text databases). In a metasearch engine, the contents of each local database is repr... / Efficient and Effective Metasearch for a Large Number of Text br in this environment many search engines have been created. Each

28.5   Exploiting Structure for Intelligent Web Search - Kruschwitz (2001)   (Correct)
Together with the rapidly growing amount of online data we register an immense need for intelligent search engines that access a restricted amount of data as found in intranets or other limited domain... / is Grouper an interface to a metasearch engine which dynamically groups br an immense need for intelligent search engines that access a restricted

28.5   Placing Search in Context: The Concept Revisited - Finkelstein, Gabrilovich, Matias.. (2001)   (Correct)
We describe a new paradigm for performing search in context. In the IntelliZap system we developed, search is initiated from a text query marked by the user in a document she views, and is guided by t... / of search engines performing meta-searching. When the context can be br of general and domain-specific search engines. The results are then

28.5   Personalized Spiders for Web Search and Analysis - Chau, Zeng, Chen (2001)   (Correct)
Searching for useful information on the World Wide Web has become increasingly difficult. While Internet search engines have been helping people to search on the web, low recall rate and outdated inde... /

28.5   classiscope: Using Metastructure Analysis to Build Better Magnets for .. - Eckersley (2000)   (Correct)
In this report we consider a number of approaches to improving the efficacy of search algorithms for the World Wide Web and similar hyperlinked document collections. We observe that the exploitation o... /

27.2   METALICA: An Enhanced Meta Search Engine for Literature Catalogs - Schmitt, Schmidt (1999)   (Correct)
Today there is an increasing if not confusing number of services available for searching and acquiring literature. This makes it more and more difficult for a user to take advantage of these new servi... / METALICA An Enhanced Meta Search Engine for Literature Catalogs

27.2   AMetaCar - a Mediated eCommerce-Solution for the Used-Car-Market - Dittmann, Fankhauser, Maric (1999)   (Correct)
Providing integrated access to multiple information offerings on the Web poses some fundamentally new challenges for practical federated information systems. Other than conventional databases with a... / Introduction AMetaCar is a meta search engine for used cars. It br AMetaCar is a meta search engine for used cars. It accesses

18.1   Finding the Most Similar Documents across Multiple Text Databases - Yu (1999)   (Correct)
In this paper, we present a methodology for finding the n most similar documents across multiple text databases for any given query and for any positive integer n. This methodology consists of two ste... / this problem is to implement a metasearch engine on top of many local br data in this library many search engines have been created. Each

18.1   Intelligent Electronic Catalogs for Sales Support - Introducing.. - Vollrath, Wilke, Bergmann (1999)   (Correct)
The number of electronic catalogs has grown rapidly during the past few years. Most of these catalogs use standard databases for storing and retrieving product information. Using ordinary databases fo... / Well known types of systems are meta search engines as well as search br of products and a database search engine on top of it The most

18.1   Report on the TREC-8 Experiment: Searching on the Web and in.. - Savoy, Picard (1999)   (Correct)
this paper verifies whether or not hyperlinks improve retrieval effectiveness. In the second chapter, we describe experiments on the ad hoc track. In this case, we acknowledge that currently it is bec... / Selecting Search Engines using Metasearch. ACM Transactions on br be needed Halasz The search engines currently available on the

17.0   RAW: A Relational Algebra for the Web - Fiebig, Weiss, Moerkotte (1997)   (Correct)
The main idea underlying the paper is to extend the relational algebra such that it becomes possible to process queries against the World-Wide Web. These extensions are minor in that we tried to keep ... / the functionality of a typical meta-search engine is capable of computing br functionality of a typical meta-search engine is capable of computing a

14.2   Context in Web Search - Lawrence (2000)   (Correct)
Web search engines generally treat search requests in isolation. The results for a given query are identical, independent of the user, or the context in which the user made the request. Nextgeneration... / information Inquirus is a metasearch engine that operates as a layer br Abstract Web search engines generally treat search

14.2   Efficient and Effective Metasearch for Text Databases Incorporating.. - Yu, Meng, Liu (2000)   (Correct)
Linkages among documents have a significant impact on the importance of documents, as it can be argued that important documents are pointed to by many documents or by other important documents. Metase... / Page Efficient and Effective Metasearch for Text Databases br data in this environment many search engines have been created. Each

14.2   Theme-Based Retrieval of Web News - Maria (2000)   (Correct)
Efficient information retrieval of highly dynamic information, such as Web news, is a complex task. As a result, search and retrieval environments for continuously updated news from other sources than... / Vii. . Metasearch Engines br absent on the Internet. Global search engines do not index or classify news

14.2   Wrapper Generation via Grammar Induction - Chidlovskii, Ragetli, de Rijke (2000)   (Correct)
To facilitate effective search on the World Wide Web, meta search engines have been developed which do not search the Web themselves, but use available search engines to find the required information.... / search on the World Wide Web meta search engines have been developed br on the World Wide Web meta search engines have been developed which do

11.5   An Information Gathering Agent for Querying Web Search Engines - Dreilinger, Howe (1996)   (Correct)
Information gathering agents have attracted much attention of late. As a new application, they are attractive because the need for intelligent assistance in navigating the World Wide Web and large dat... / engines we have developed a metasearch agent called SavvySearch br Agent for Querying Web Search Engines Daniel Dreilinger Adele

11.4   A Next Generation Information Gathering Agent - Lesser, Horling, Klassner, Raja.. (1998)   (Correct)
The World Wide Web has become an invaluable information resource but the explosion of information available via the web has made web search a time consuming and complex process. Index-based search eng... / of work toward this end is the meta search engine. Meta search engines br complex process. Index-based search engines such as AltaVista or

11.4   A Content-Based Image Meta-Search Engine using Relevance Feedback - Benitez, Beigi, Chang (1998)   (Correct)
Search engines are the most powerful resources for finding information on the rapidly expanding World-Wide Web. Finding the desired search engines and learning how to use them, however, can be very ti... / can be very time consuming. Metasearch engines which integrate a br A Content-Based Image Meta-Search Engine using Relevance

9.0   Information Retrieval on the Web: Selected Topics - Kobayashi, Takeda (1999)   (Correct)
In this paper we review studies on the growth of the Internet and technologies which are useful for information search and retrieval on the Web. In the rst section, we present data on the Internet fro... / Gravano has investigated metasearchers i.e.services which br users are increasingly using search engines and search services to nd

9.0   Text and Image Metasearch on the Web - Lawrence, Giles (1999)   (Correct)
As the Web continues to increase in size, the relative coverage of Web search engines is decreasing, and search tools that combine the results of multiple search engines are becoming more valuable. Th... / CSREA Press. Text and Image Metasearch on the Web Steve Lawrence and br Keywords text search image search metasearch parallel Web search.

9.0   Visualization of WWW-Search Results - Mann (1999)   (Correct)
The idea of Information Visualization is to get insights into great amounts of abstract data. Especially document sets found by searching the World Wide Web are a special challenge. The paper gives a ... / of search results from a local meta search engine. This paper is br the usage with a local meta web search engine. . Introduction The

9.0   Integrating WWW Caches and Search Engines - Meira, Jr., Cesário, Fonseca, Ziviani (1999)   (Correct)
In this paper we propose the concept of cache plugins, which are customized programs that run WWW cache servers and perform some of the search engine tasks. We describe a prototype implementation of c... / gaining popularity is the use of meta-search engines which aim at br Integrating WWW Caches and Search Engines W. Meira Jr. M. Ces'ario

8.6   WWW Robots and Search Engines - Heinonen, Hätönen, Klemettinen (1996)   (Correct)
The Web robots are programs that automatically traverse through networks. Currently, their most visible and familiar application is to provide indices for search engines, such as Lycos and Alta Vista,... / of search engines so called meta-search engines and subject br WWW Robots and Search Engines Oskari Heinonen Kimmo

8.5   Structuring and Querying the Web through Graph-Oriented Languages - Damiani (1997)   (Correct)
In order to pose effective queries to Web sites, some form of site data model must be implicitly or explicitly shared by users. Many approaches try to compensate for the lack of such a common model ... / Magellan McK Recently metasearch services MetaCrawler br users grew unsatisfied with search engines based on pure keyword

8.5   Relevance Feedback and Query Expansion for Searching the Web: A Model .. - Smeaton (1997)   (Correct)
A fully operational large scale digital library is likely to be based on a distributed architecture and because of this it is likely that a number of independent search engines may be used to index... / functionality. Thus it is our meta search engine and not the underlying br that a number of independent search engines may be used to index

5.7   Information Discovery and Filtering using a Multiagent Evolving.. - Moukas (1996)   (Correct)
Agents are semi-intelligent programs that assist the user in performing repetitive and time-consuming tasks. Information discovery and information filtering are a suitable domain for applying agent ... / indexing engines and perform a meta-search in order to discover br and Related Work . Search Engines New tools like search

4.2   Semantic Approaches to Structuring and Querying Web Sites - Damiani, Tanca (1997)   (Correct)
In order to pose effective queries to Web sites, some form of site data model must be implicitly or explicitly shared by users. Many approaches try to compensate for the lack of such a common model by... / fledged text-retrieval system Meta-search services MetaCrawler Sel br one could hardly find a Web search engine relying on term indexing

4.2   Lyceum: A Multi-Protocol Digital Library Gateway - Maa, Esler, Nelson (1997)   (Correct)
Lyceum is a prototype scalable query gateway that provides a logically central interface to multi-protocol and physically distributed, digital libraries of scientific and technical information. Lyceum... / challenge to the design of metasearch engines and the indexing and br and advantages of this type of meta-search engine by providing access to

3.0   Detection of Heterogeneities in a Multiple Text Database Environment - Meng   (Correct)
As the number of text retrieval systems (search engines) grows rapidly on the World Wide Web, there is an increasing need to build search brokers (metasearch engines) on top of them. Often, the task o... / need to build search brokers metasearch engines on top of them. Often br of text retrieval systems search engines grows rapidly on the World

Design and evaluation of a multi-agent collaborative Web Mining System - Chau, Zeng, Chen, Huang, Hendriawan (2003)   (Correct)
Most existing Web search tools work only with individual users and do not help a user benefit from previous search experiences of others. In this paper, we present the Collaborative Spider, a multi-ag... /

Personalized and Focused Web Spiders - Chau, Chen (2003)   (Correct)
Introduction The number of indexable pages on the World Wide Web has exceeded 2 billion and is still growing at a substantial rate [Lyman & Varian, 2000]. Searching the Web for useful information has... /

HelpfulMed: Intelligent Searching for Medical Information over the.. - Chen, Lally, Zhu, Chau (2003)   (Correct)
Medical professionals and researchers need information from reputable sources to accomplish their work. Unfortunately, the Web has a large number of documents that are irrelevant to their work, even t... /

Information Retrieval on the World Wide Web and Active Logic: A.. - Barfourosh, Nezhad, Anderson, Perlis (2002)   (Correct)
As more information becomes available on the World Wide Web (there are currently over 4 billion pages covering most areas of human endeavor), it becomes more difficult to provide effective search tool... / . Portals . Meta-Search Engines . . Direct br concentrate on topic-specific search engines focused crawling and

Extracting Query Modifications from Nonlinear SVMs - Flake, Glover, Lawrence, Giles (2002)   (Correct)
When searching the WWW, users often desire results restricted to a particular document category. Ideally, a user would be able to filter results with a text classifier to minimize false positive resul... /

Optimizing Search Engines using Clickthrough Data - Joachims (2002)   (Correct)
This paper presents an approach to automatically optimizing the retrieval quality of search engines using clickthrough data. Intuitively, a good information retrieval system should present relevant do... /

User Behavior Analysis of Location Aware Search Engine - Pramudiono, Shintani, +, Kitsuregawa (2002)   (Correct)
Rapid growth of internet access from mobile users puts much importance on location specific information on the web. An unique web service called Mobile Info Search (MIS) from NTT Laboratories gathers ... /

An Autonomous Page Ranking Method for Metasearch Engines - Alberto Mendelzon Department (2002)   (Correct)
this paper, the topics are derived from the user's query; the reputation of each result page on the query topic is computed, and the value used to rank the result pages across all participating search... /

Personally Inherited Features of Web Pages - Chen, Wenyin, Lin, Xiao, Lin, Lin.. (2002)   (Correct)
Inherited features are found among the pages on the same navigation paths a user has accessed and used to model her preferences and interests. The constructed user models can be used to build personal... /

Information Retrieval on the Semantic Web - Shah, Finin, Mayfield (2002)   (Correct)
We describe an approach for information retrieval over documents that consist of both free text and semantically enriched markup. In particular, we present the design and implementation prototype o... / evolved as a descendent to Meta Search Engine which incorporate br the task that commercial web search engines such as AltaVista and Google

Cranking: Combining Rankings Using Conditional Probability Models On.. - Lebanon, Lafferty (2002)   (Correct)
A new approach to ensemble learning is introduced that takes ranking rather than classification as fundamental, leading to models on the symmetric group and its cosets. The approach uses a general... /

Bornholm Cases in Web Mining - Nielsen (2002)   (Correct)
this document also viewed" unknown Bornholm Cases in Web Mining rup Nielsen Informatics and Mathematical Modelling Technical University of Denmark DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark Email: fn@imm.dtu.dk ... / C. L. Architecture of a metasearch engine that supports user br of URLs. Inquirus meta-search engine. DEADLINER.

Comparison of Two Approaches to Building a Vertical Search Tool: A.. - Chau, Chen, Qin, Zhou, Qin, Sung.. (2002)   (Correct)
As the Web has been growing exponentially, it has become increasingly difficult to search for desired information. In recent years, many domain-specific (vertical) search tools have been developed to ... /

Approximate Information Filtering with Multiple Classification.. - Stuckenschmidt (2002)   (Correct)
this paper, we address the problem of filtering information categorized according to di#erent classification hierarchies. We describe a method for approximating Boolean queries over class names acro... / database categorization in a metasearch engine environment Proceedings br to improve querying meta search engines and web

The Design And Evaluation Of Web Prefetching and Caching Techniques - Davison (2002)   (Correct)
User-perceived retrieval latencies in the World Wide Web can be improved by preloading a local cache with resources likely to be accessed. A user requesting content that can be served by the cache is ... /

Feature Selection in Web Applications By ROC Inflections and Powerset .. - Coetzee, Glover, Lawrence, Giles (2001)   (Correct)
A basic problem of information processing is selecting enough features to ensure that events are accurately represented for classification problems, while simultaneously minimizing storage and process... / databases such as niche metasearch engines. Introduction A br for query modifications in a search engine. Subset and Classifier

Polynomial Time Approximation Schemes for Geometric k-Clustering - Ostrovsky, Rabani (2001)   (Correct)
The Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma states that n points in a high dimensional Hilbert space can be embedded with small distortion of the distances into an O(log n) dimensional space by applying a random ... / Manjara project a web meta-search engine that clusters the br of web pages retrieved by a search engine or the study of

From Databases to Information Systems - Information Quality Makes the .. - Naumann (2001)   (Correct)
Research and business is currently moving from centralized databases towards in-formation systems integrating distributed and autonomous data sources. Simultane-ously, it is a well acknowledged fact t... / find the wanted Web page. A meta-search engine solves this problem by br guide users to these sources search engines let users discover sources

Creating a Semantic web Interface with Virtual Reality - O'Donoghue, Cleary (2001)   (Correct)
Novel initiatives amongst the Internet community such as Internet2 [1] and Qbone [2] are based on the use of high bandwidth and powerful computers. However the experience amongst the majority of Inter... / a distributed high performance search engine utilizing advanced threading

Analysis and extraction of useful information across networks of Web.. - Park (2001)   (Correct)
Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Problem Statement 2 3 Literature Review 3 3.1 Retrieving Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.2 Understanding Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... /

A World Wide Web Meta Search Engine Using an Automatic Query Routing.. - Svidzinska (2001)   (Correct)
CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION......................................................... ........................................ 6 2. LITERATURE REVIEW.......................................................... / to the search process. As a metasearch engine it uses other search br A World Wide Web Meta Search Engine Using an Automatic

The Overview of Web Search Engines - Lam (2001)   (Correct)
The World Wide Web allows people to share information globally. The amount of information grows without bound. In order to extract information that we are interested in, we need a tool to search the W... / Retrieval Page Ranking Google Metasearch Web Crawlers and Web br The Overview of Web Search Engines Sunny Lam Department of

Democratic Data Fusion for Information Retrieval Mediators - Tzitzikas (2001)   (Correct)
Our research presented in this paper concerns the problem of fusing the results returned by the underlying systems to a mediating retrieval system, also called meta-retrieval system, meta-search engin... / Remarks In general metasearchers i.e. MetaCrawler br called meta-retrieval system meta-search engine or mediator. We

Internet search for Indian languages - Soundalgekar (2001)   (Correct)
With the Internet growing at an exponential rate, no single search engine can index all of the web. It is therefore necessary to build specialized search engines that fulfill particular needs of a com... / Apart from this there are some meta search engines like MetaCrawler br an exponential rate no single search engine can index all of the web. It

A Scalable Architecture for Parallel CORBA-based Applications - Markus Aleksy Martin (2001)   (Correct)
In this paper we present a scalable architecture for parallel CORBA-based systems. It extends CORBA's basic synchronous communication model and enables enhanced flexibility in programming applications... / N applications are a meta search engine an electronic br applications are a meta search engine an electronic broker

Intelligent Anticipated Exploration of Web Sites - Ianni (2001)   (Correct)
In this paper we describe a web search agent, called Global Search Agent (hereafter GSA for short). GSA integrates and enhances several search techniques in order to achieve significant improvements... /

Report on the TREC-9 Experiment: Link-Based Retrieval and Distributed .. - Jacques Savoy Yves (2001)   (Correct)
this paper, we will describe the results of our investigations, which demonstrate that simple raw score merging may show interesting retrieval performances while the hyperlinks used in different searc... / on the Internet than the meta search engines where different br Summary The web and its search engines have resulted in a new

Probability Based Clustering for Document and User Properties - Mandl, Womser-Hacker (2001)   (Correct)
Information Retrieval systems can be improved by exploiting context information such as user and document features. This article presents a model based on overlapping probabilistic or fuzzy clusters... / presented by the popular internet meta search engines. They have been br by the popular internet meta search engines. They have been developed

The website You Seek cannot be located but endless others exist - Croft (2001)   (Correct)
ction Selection and Result Merging Ranked List Bruce Croft Metasearch . Similar to distributed searching . Uses a specified set ofWeb search engines . User's query translated into engine-specific form... / Ranked List Bruce Croft Metasearch Similar to distributed br also a key issue forWeb search engines Some architectures have

MetaSpider: Meta-Searching and Categorization on the Web - Chen, Fan, Chau, Zeng (2001)   (Correct)
this paper, we describe in details such an evaluation framework developed to study the effectiveness of MetaSpider, and report initial findings of a user study guided by this metric. The article start... /

Topical Locality in the Web: Experiments and Observations - Davison (2000)   (Correct)
Most web pages are linked to others with related content. This idea, combined with another that says that text in, and possibly around, HTML anchors describe the pages to which they point, is the foun... / Selected Search Engines Using Metasearch. ACM Transactions on br primarily of use to web indexers meta-search tools and to human browsers of

Discovery of Similarity Computations of Search Engines - Liu, Meng, Yu (2000)   (Correct)
Two typical situations in which it is of practical interest to determine the similarities of text documents to a query due to a search engine are: (1) a global search engine, constructed on top of a g... / also known as metabroker or metasearch engine on top of a group of br of Similarity Computations of Search Engines Abstract Two typical

Feature Selection in Web Applications Using ROC Inflections and Power .. - Frans Coetzee Eric (2000)   (Correct)
A basic problem of information processing is selecting enough features to ensure that events are accurately represented for classification problems, while simultaneously minimizing storage and proces... / C. L. Giles Architecture of a metasearch engine that supports user br databases such as niche meta search engines. Introduction A

Features: Real-time Adaptive Feature Learning and Document Learning.. - Chen, Meng, Fowler, Zhu (2000)   (Correct)
In this paper we report our research on building Features - an intelligent web search engine that is able to perform real-time adaptive feature (i.e., keyword) and document learning. Not only does Fea... / Dispatcher Web Metasearcher Indexdatabase Fex Tw br index database and a real-time meta-searcher so to perform adaptive

Heterogeneous Multimedia Database Selection on the Web - Kim, Lee, Lee, Chung (2000)   (Correct)
Multimedia databases on the Web have two distinct characteristics, autonomy and heterogeneity. They are established and maintained independently and queries are processed depending on their own scheme... / proposed a protocol for Internet metasearching GCM Callan et al. br proposed a content-based meta-search engine for images called the

Human-style WWW summarization - Endres-Niggemeyer (2000)   (Correct)
this paper has been to show how a human-style summarization system can be realized. unknown Human-style WWW summarization 4-2-2000 Brigitte Endres-Niggemeyer Fachhochschule Hannover University f... / scenario preprocessing metasearch engine search engine Fig. br metasearch engine search engine Fig. . Sketch of WWW

Yarrow: A Real-Time Client Side Meta-Search Learner - Chen (2000)   (Correct)
In this paper we report our research on building Yarrow - an intelligent web meta-search engine. The predominant feature of Yarrow is that in contrast to the lack of adaptive learning features in exis... / learning features in existing metasearch engines Yarrow is equipped br Yarrow A Real-Time Client Side Meta-Search Learner Zhixiang Chen and

A Memetic Algorithm With Self-Adaptive Local Search: TSP as a case.. - Krasnogor, Smith (2000)   (Correct)
In this paper we introduce a promising hybridization scheme for a Memetic Algorithm (MA). Our MA is composed of two optimization processes, a Genetic Algorithm and a Monte Carlo method (MC). In contra... / gives rise to a better global search meta-heuristic. . Description br a MA. The MA used as a local search engine the same basic move used by

On the Compositionality and Transactional Execution of Electronic.. - Wichert (2000)   (Correct)
Electronic commerce plays a more and more important role in today's economy. An increasing number of firms sell their products online, and portals bundle the services of other firms and offer them to ... / interface of the portal. WWW meta-search engines which send a user's br of the portal. WWW meta-search engines which send a user's search

Assessment Methods for Information Quality Criteria - Naumann, Rolker (2000)   (Correct)
Information quality (IQ) is one of the most important aspects of information integration on the internet. Many projects realize and address this fact by gathering and classifying IQ criteria. Hardly... /

On the Instability of Web Search Engines - Selberg, Etzioni (2000)   (Correct)
The output of major WWW search engines was analyzed and the results led to some surprising observations about their stability. Twenty-five queries were issued repeatedly to the engines and the results... / and Etzioni's joint research on metasearch while at the University of br at NEC using the Inquiris meta-search engine Lawrence and Giles

Generating a Topically Focused VirtualReality Internet - Cleary, O'Donoghue (2000)   (Correct)
Surveys highlight that Internet users are frequently frustrated by failing to locate useful information, and by difficulty in browsing anarchically linked web-structures. We present a new Internet bro... / assist with Internet search Meta-search engines combine the results of br and structurally aware search engines. Indexers identify all pages

Collaborative Re-Ranking of Search Results - Chidlovskii (2000)   (Correct)
In this paper we present a system architecture for coupling user and community profiling to the information search process. The search process and the ranking of relevant documents are accomplished wi... / Both recommender systems and meta-search engines can be enhanced using br recommender systems and meta-search engines can be enhanced using this

How Much More is Better? - Characterizing the Effects of Adding More.. - Vogt (2000)   (Correct)
We present the results of some expansion experiments for solving the routing, data fusion problem using TREC5 systems. The experiments address the question "How much more is better?" when combining th... / Selecting Search Engines Using Metasearch. ACM Transactions on br communicate with these so-called meta-search engines. Another piece of

Learning Comprehensible Conceptual User Models for User Adaptive Meta .. - Müller (2000)   (Correct)
In course of the OySTER project our goal is to induce conceptual user models that allow for a transparent query refinement and information filtering in the domain of Www meta--search. User models whic... / in the domain of Www meta-search. User models which describe a br behind the intelligent meta search engine OySTER are as follows

Completeness of Information Sources - Naumann, Freytag (2000)   (Correct)
For a large number of information domains, there are numerous World Wide Web information sources. Mediators allow integrated access to these sources by providing a common schema against which the us... / to our application example of a meta search engine. We describe the type of br application example of a meta search engine. We describe the type of

A Virtual Reality Topology Tool For Maintaining Web-Sites - Cleary, Veale, Donoghue (2000)   (Correct)
We present a Virtual Reality tool for interacting with a web-site, visualising its structure rather than the contents of individual pages. This tool recursively parses interlinked pages located on a g... /

Design and Implementation of the BoW User Interface - Feitelson (2000)   (Correct)
BoW provides the tools for maintenance of an on-line bibliographical repository by its users. The user interface is designed to make the most of user interaction - both in terms of being easy to use b... / such as web search engines and meta search engines have been brought to br hand. Various tools such as web search engines and meta search engines have

Automatic Wrapper Generation for Web Search Engines - Chidlovskii, Ragetli, de Rijke (2000)   (Correct)
To facilitate effective search on the World Wide Web, several `meta search engines' have been developed which do not search the Web themselves, but use available search engines to find the required in... / Y. Mediating and Metasearching on the Internet. Data br on the World Wide Web several meta search engines' have been developed

Location Oriented Integration of Internet Information - Mobile Info.. - Katsumi Takahashi Seiji (2000)   (Correct)
Information on the Internet is becoming more attractive and useful for our daily life. It provides things on the town, happenings on the city, and learning of the real world. If we can utilize such ... / two features Location-Oriented Meta Search and Location-Oriented br similar to Mobile Info Search. MetaCrawler is a parallel WWW

Complementing Search Engines with Online Web Mining Agents - Degeratu, Menczer (2000)   (Correct)
There is a mismatch between the static image of the World Wide Web stored in search engine repositories and the actual dynamic, distributed nature of Web data. We propose to attack this problem using ... / of any search engine by using meta-search techniques such as MetaCrawler br Complementing Search Engines with Online Web Mining Agents

Integration of Search Sites of the World Wide Web - Tsuyoshi Taguchi Yasunori (2000)   (Correct)
Quality of search results is a problem of search engines for the World Wide Web. Recently many sites are providing their own information with their own search engines. We call them as search sites. Th... / search engines are known as meta search engine Selberg and Etzioni br search results is a problem of search engines for the World Wide Web.

Auditory WWW Search Tools - Alex Ferworn Richard (2000)   (Correct)
Early Web applications were overwhelmingly visual. As the Web becomes an essential tool in knowledge work, electronic commerce, and virtual interaction, there is a need for auditory interfaces to Web ... / engine technologies including a meta-search technique i.e.aggregating br of an innovative auditory search engine. This search engine provides

Formative Evaluation on Internet Search Tool - Lim Tek Yong (2000)   (Correct)
This paper presents a formative evaluation of information retrieval tool for Internet search. The us er interface and retrieval performances were the two identified criteria for user-oriented evaluati... / search engine and only using meta-search engine. subjects used br .what kinds of interfaces for search engines or outputs provide maximum

Necessary Constraints for Fusion Algorithms in Meta Search Engine.. - Yang, Zhang (2000)   (Correct)
Fusion is one of the main technical problems of running a meta search engine (MSE). In this paper, we have classfied the potential cases of fusion in MSE systems (MSEs) and the types of MSEs. Based o... /

A Methodology to Retrieve Text Documents from Multiple Databases - Yu (1999)   (Correct)
In this paper, we present a methodology for finding the n most similar documents across multiple text databases for any given query and for any positive integer n. This methodology consists of two ste... / this problem is to implement a metasearch engine on top of many local br data in this environment many search engines have been created. Each

Word Sense Disambiguation And Its Application To Internet Search - Mihalcea (1999)   (Correct)
ambiguation method presented here is that it provides a ranking of possible associations between words senses, rather than a binary yes/no decision for a possible sense combination. This proves to be ... / search engines and create a meta search engine This will br The Documents Fetched By The Search Engines. V Table Of Contents

Intelligent Information Access in the Web: ML based User Modeling for .. - Müller (1999)   (Correct)
It is a well known fact that high precision search for documents concerning a certain topic in the World Wide Web (Www) is a tough problem. Index based search engines vary in recall (with a coverage o... / Modeling for high precision Meta-Search Martin E. Muller Institute br precision by simple keyword search. Meta search engines provide a

Improving the search on the Internet by using WordNet and lexical.. - Moldovan, Mihalcea (1999)   (Correct)
This paper presents a natural language interface system to an Internet search engine that provides the following improvements: (1) accepts natural language (English) questions, (2) expands the query, ... / search engines and create a meta search engine Selberg and Etzioni br interface system to an Internet search engine that provides the following

Machine Learning based User Modeling for WWW Search - Müller (1999)   (Correct)
The World Wide Web (Www) offers a huge number of documents which deal with information concerning nearly any topic. Thus, search engines and meta search engines currently are the key to finding inform... / topic. Thus search engines and meta search engines currently are the key br nearly any topic. Thus search engines and meta search engines

Self-Describing Schemes for Interoperable MPEG-7 Multimedia Content.. - Paek, Benitez, Chang (1999)   (Correct)
In this paper, we present the self-describing schemes for interoperable image/video content descriptions, which are being developed as part of our proposal to the MPEG-7 standard. MPEG-7 aims to stand... / is a new version of MetaSEEk a metasearch system for mediation among br first system is an intelligent search engine with an associated expressive

Recommending Web Documents Based on User Preferences - Glover, Lawrence, Gordon.. (1999)   (Correct)
Making recommendations requires treating users as individuals. In this paper, we describe a metasearch engine available at NEC Research Institute that allows individual search strategies to be used. E... / In this paper we describe a metasearch engine available at NEC br a dozen different Internet search engines and combines the results

An Intelligent Multi-Agent Architecture for Information Retrieval.. - Müller (1999)   (Correct)
The World Wide Web (WWW) offers an uncountable number of documents which deal with information from a neverending list of topics. Thus the question of whether to find information turned into a questio... / and offer a very bad precision. Meta search engines try to overcome these br to find relevant information. Search engines with crawler based indexes

Evolving Personal Agent Environments To Reduce Internet Information.. - Pagonis, Sinclair (1999)   (Correct)
this paper we will address the other major information overload problem, arising from habitual surfing. We will present our proposed research programme and also outline and support a potential solutio... / AskJeeves also performs a meta-search on other search engines and br time they are referred to as search engines. The majority of these make

Inducing Conceptual User Models - Müller (1999)   (Correct)
Usually, performance is the primary objective in systems that make use of user modeling (Um) techniques. But since machine learning (Ml) in user modeling addresses several issues in the context of h... / in the domain of Www meta-search. Introduction Why br behind the intelligent meta search engine OySTER are as

Efficiency analysis of brokers in the electronic marketplace - Almeida, Jr., Ribeiro, Ziviani (1999)   (Correct)
In this paper we analyze the behavior of e-commerce users based on actual logs from two large non-English e-brokers. We start by presenting a quantitative study of the behavior of e-brokers and discus... / working in parallel just like metasearchers that use several br e-brokers can be viewed as search engines that specialize in specific

Dynamic Modeling and Learning User Profile in Personalized News Agent - Widyantoro (1999)   (Correct)
Finding relevant information effectively on the Internet is a challenging task. Although the information is widely available, exploring Web sites and finding information relevant to a user's interest ... / . . Meta Search Engine . br engine. . Meta Search Engine Searching through the meta search

A Study of Belief Revision in the Context of Adaptive Information.. - Lau (1999)   (Correct)
The rapid growth of the Internet and the World Wide Web (Web) provides access to vast amounts of valuable information. However, the problem of information overload is an obstacle to the practical us... / Internet search engines and meta-search engines have been developed to br on the Web. Though Internet search engines and meta-search engines have

Agent-Assisted Internet Browsing - Somlo, Howe (1999)   (Correct)
this paper. Once we have tested the basic capability prototype, we are planning on adding capability to monitor Usenet transactions in addition to WWW pages. In addition, we are developing a more soun... / especially in the form of meta-search engines e.g.Dreilinger br especially in the form of meta-search engines e.g.Dreilinger WWW

A Statistical Method for Estimating the Usefulness of Text Databases - Liu (1998)   (Correct)
Searching desired data in the Internet is one of the most common ways the Internet is used. No single search engine is capable of searching all data in the Internet. The approach that provides an inte... / existing methods. Keywords Metasearch Information Resource Discovery br the Internet is used. No single search engine is capable of searching all

BIG: A Resource-Bounded Information Gathering and Decision Support.. - Lesser, Horling, Klassner, Raja.. (1998)   (Correct)
The World Wide Web has become an invaluable information resource but the explosion of available information has made web search a time consuming and complex process. The large number of information so... / of work toward this end is the meta search engine. Meta search engines br BIG also utilizes general URL search engines and sites information

The WG-Log System: Data Model and Semantics - Comai (1998)   (Correct)
In order to pose effective queries to Web sites, some form of site data model must be implicitly or explicitly shared by users. In this paper we propose WG-log, a query language which allows the descr... / document. Many current Web search engines are still partially based on

Jambalaya: Using Multicast for Blind Distributed Web Searching and.. - Navas, Hirsh (1998)   (Correct)
Currently, the communication protocols for the World Wide Web are based on a form of unicasting called the Transport Control Protocol (TCP). One of the assumptions of unicasting, which is point-to-poi... / pages. Even so-called meta-search engines or Para-Sites such br location such as at a web search engine thus creating islands of

Intelligent Sales Support on the Web - Using Case-Based Reasoning.. - Vollrath, Wilke, Bergmann (1998)   (Correct)
this article. It is the authors' opinion that most electronic catalogs and online shops by far do not utilize the benefits of interactivity that is offered by today's technologies. Looking at existing... / Well known types of systems are meta search engines and search agents. br of products and a database search engine on top of it The most

Inquirus, the NECI meta search engine - Lawrence, Giles (1998)   (Correct)
World Wide Web (WWW) search engines (e.g. AltaVista, Infoseek, HotBot, etc.) have a number of deficiencies including: periods of downtime, low coverage of the WWW, inconsistent and inefficient user in... / . Inquirus the NECI meta search engine Steve Lawrence and C. br . Inquirus the NECI meta search engine Steve Lawrence and C. Lee

Collaborative Information Gathering - Grasso, Borghoff, Glance, al. (1998)   (Correct)
The combination of push and pull information retrieval technology can benefit from collaborative information gathering schemes. In this paper we outline an approach that combines a pull technology (... / Brokers system is a kind of meta-search engine realizing the pull br provides a uniform interface to search engines BoSc CBC

Mobile Info Search: Information Integration for Location-Aware.. - Takahashi, Miura, Yokoji, Shima (1998)   (Correct)
this paper we introduce a research project entitled Mobile Info Search (MIS), and describe its goal, architecture, implementation, and experimental results. The goal of MIS is to collect, structure,... / features a location-oriented meta search for Web database servers a br kokono Search is a kind of a search engine that lists Web pages not on

Towards an Empirical Model of WWW Site Response Times - Thomas Wagner Department (1996)   (Correct)
Intuitively we believe that different WWW sites have different response time characteristics and that the characteristics change during the course of the day. These differences are important in the ... / WWW domain is SavvySearch a meta-search tool that simply posts queries br week. Queries submitted to URL search engines early Saturday morning seem to

Building Efficient and Effective Metasearch Engines - Meng, Yu, Liu   (Correct)
Frequently a user's information needs are stored in the databases of multiple search engines. It is inconvenient and inefficient for an ordinary user to invoke multiple search engines and identify u... / Building Efficient and Effective Metasearch Engines Weiyi Meng

Towards a Highly-Scalable Metasearch Engine - Meng, Yu, Wu   (Correct)
The World Wide Web has been expanding in a very fast rate. The coverage of the Web by each of the major search engines has been steadily decreasing despite their effort to index more web pages. Worse ... / Towards a Highly-Scalable Metasearch Engine Weiyi Meng br the Web by each of the major search engines has been steadily decreasing

iew: A Framework for Integration of Large-Scale Distributed Visual.. - Zhang   (Correct)
Many visual databases (including image and video databases) are being designed in various locations. The integration of such databases enables users to access data across the world in a transparent ma... / components the metadatabase the metasearch agent and the query manager. br probably visit a well-known web search engine such as Yahoo to get a list

Maximizing Coverage of Mediated Web Queries - Yerneni, Naumann, Garcia-Molina   (Correct)
Over the Web, mediators are built on large collections of sources to provide integrated access to Web content (e.g., meta-search engines). In order to minimize the expense of visiting a large number... / access to Web content e.g.meta-search engines In order to minimize br to Web content e.g.meta-search engines In order to minimize the

Thesis Description And Evaluation Of A Meta-Search Agent - Dreilinger   (Correct)
OF THESIS DESCRIPTION AND EVALUATION OF A META-SEARCH AGENT The volume of information available on the Web continues to increase at an exponential rate. Today, there are literally tens of millions of ... / Upon query submission via the metasearch engine's user interface a br Description And Evaluation Of A Meta-Search Agent Submitted By Daniel

A Collaborative Internet Documents Access Scheme Using Acird - Lin   (Correct)
In this paper, we present a collaborative intelligent Internet multi-web sites documents search system using ACIRD. ACIRD is a system that automatically learns the classification knowledge from Web pa... / gateway to these databases. Meta-search engines such as All-In-One br a collaborative two-phase search engine is proposed which dispatches

A Natural Language Processing Based Internet Agent - Yang   (Correct)
Searching for useful information is a difficult job by the virtue of information overloading problem. With the technological advances, notably World-Wide Web (WWW), it allows every ordinary informatio... / engine. MetaCrawler is a meta search engine designed to address br Internet agents and Internet search engines have been used to deal with

Empirical methods for ontology engineering in bone marrow.. - Endres-Niggemeyer   (Correct)
resent them in an ontology or not. Inadequate empirical methods risk compromising the results of knowledge acquisition before we can include them in an ontology. Furthermore, the success of ontology e... / scenario preprocessing metasearch engine search engine br search form. It is passed to a meta search engine and to Medline

MSEEC - A Multi Search Engine with Multiple Clustering - Hannappel, Klapsing, Neumann   (Correct)
This paper presents a scalable architecture for a multi search engine for web documents with multiple cluster algorithms (MSEEC[16]). Querying multiple primary search engines in the Internet (or in ... / information meta data to guide search Meta data such as keywords or br MSEEC A Multi Search Engine with Multiple Clustering

Object-Based Multimedia Content Description Schemes and Applications.. - Benitez, Paek, Chang, Puri, Huang..   (Correct)
In this paper, we describe description schemes (DSs) for image, video, multimedia, home media, and archive content proposed to the MPEG-7 standard. MPEG-7 aims to create a multimedia content descripti... / storytelling system and an image meta search engine MetaSEEk. Keywords br system and an image meta search engine MetaSEEk. Keywords

Flexible Queries to Semi-structured Datasources: the WG-log Approach - Comai, Damiani, Tanca   (Correct)
A line of research is presented aimed at specifying both logical and navigational aspects of semi-structured data sources such as Web sites through the unifying notion of schema. Gracefully supporting... / with free text searching meta-search services like SavvySearch br document. Many current Web search engines like Altavista Alt are

Meta Web Search with KOMET - Calmet, Kullmann   (Correct)
KOMET is a logic-based mediator system that was designed for the knowledgebased integration of heterogeneous information sources [CJKS97]. One of the main challenges in using the numerous informatio... / increasing the complexity of the meta search application we demonstrate br programs that realize a meta search engine each. We will demonstrate

CBR in the Pipeline - Marc Goodman   (Correct)
In a variety of reasoning tasks, even ones for which CBR seems ideally suited, a stand-alone CBR component may not prove adequate. First, the data available in system construction may be too raw or no... / Suchmachinen Suchdienst Metasearch Keyword Search Search br Moteurs De Recherche and Search Engines all refer to the same topic.

Text Database Selection for Longer Queries - Wu   (Correct)
A metasearch engine is a system that supports unified access to multiple local search engines. One of the main challenges in building a large-scale metasearch engine is to solve the database (search e... / DePaul University Abstract A metasearch engine is a system that supports br uni ed access to multiple local search engines. One of the main challenges

Evolving User Profiles to Reduce Internet Information Overload - Pagonis, Sinclair   (Correct)
This paper discusses the use of Evolving Personal Agent Environments as a potential solution to the problem of information overload as experienced in habitual Web surfing. Some first experimental re... /

Distributed Search - Wah   (Correct)
ted search." When the objectives are ill-defined or undefined, the search may start with some initial objectives, and users may be asked to evaluate the quality of the results returned in order to ref... / can also be combined to form meta-search algorithms. The idea is that br distributed search may call a search engine to look up information in

An Integrated Ontology for the WWW - Pavel Simek Vojt   (Correct)
Knowledge-intensive processing of WWW information should be founded on clear and uniform conceptualisation. An integrated ontology covering different aspects of the WWW (documents, sites, network ... / should support intelligent metasearch of the Web in particular br hit-lists returned by external search engines. Introduction During

Search Engine - Yu   (Correct)
this article, we sketch techniques which are used to build search engines. We concentrate on search engines involving texts only as searching involving other forms of media such as images and videos i... / Search Engine Clement Yu And

Proposal Id: P480 Proposal for MPEG-7 Image Description Scheme Name: - Paek, Li, Puri   (Correct)
this document, although any specific DDL selected by MPEG-7 can be used to serve the same purpose as well. We will demonstrate that new features can be easily accommodated using the hierarchical struc... / is a new version of MetaSEEk a metasearch system for mediation among br The first system is a search engine that allows users to query

Collaborative Information Gathering: A Program of Research - Borghoff, Glance, Grasso, Willamowski   (Correct)
ions and recommendations. The activity of searching is one step of a more complex social process (see Figure1): . each information search is not a stand-alone entity, but is part of a permanent chain... / provides a uniform interface to search engines BoSc CBC

Proposal Id: P482 Proposal for MPEG-7 Archive Description Scheme Name: - Benitez, Paek, Chang   (Correct)
MPEG-7 aims to standardize descriptors, descriptor schemes, and a description definition language for multimedia content in order to facilitate content applications such as multimedia searching, filte... / sources Interoperable metasearch engine Personalized br lead to apparition of open search engines or repositories which would

Rank Aggregation Revisited - Dwork, Kumar, Naor, Sivakumar   (Correct)
The rank aggregation problem is to combine many different rank orderings on the same set of candidates, or alternatives, in order to obtain a "better" ordering. Rank aggregation has been studied exte... / reducing search engine spam in metasearch. We note the virtues of Kemeny br Collaborative filtering and meta-search Statistics Notions of

Inducing Content Based User Models with Inductive Logic Programming.. - Müller   (Correct)
In this paper we describe an approach for conceptual user unknown Inducing Content Based User Models with Inductive Logic Programming Techniques Martin E. Muller Institute for Semantic Informati... / system that consists of a meta search engine which for each result br in the OySTER meta web search engine. Instead of collaboratively

Concurrent programming on the web with Webstream - Hong   (Correct)
We describe Webstream, a concurrent stream-based scripting language for client-side web programming. Webstream encapsulates web documents as active streams executing in lightweight threads, permitti... / comparison-shopping agents and meta-search engines. Introduction br agents and meta-search engines. Introduction With the

Distributed Information And Retrieval Systems - Leo Galamb Os   (Correct)
The distributed information and retrieval systems (DIRS) should have little impact on the user other than to make a larger number of document available in them. There are four major problems. First... / in this paper . engines with metasearch basis . using parallel br simple. Internet oers row of search engines -yahoo infoseek

A Meta-search Method Reinforced by Cluster Descriptors - Shen, Lee   (Correct)
A meta-search engine acts as an agent for the participant search engines. It receives queries from users and redirects them to one or more of the participant search engines for processing. A meta-sear... / take up more storage space at the metasearch engine. Furthermore the cost br A Meta-search Method Reinforced by Cluster

QUEST - Querying specialized collections on the Web - Heß, Mönch, Drobnik   (Correct)
Ensuring access to specialized web-collections in a fast evolving web environment requires flexible techniques for orientation and querying. The adoption of meta search techniques for web-collection... / and querying. The adoption of meta search techniques for web-collections br automatically. The standard search engines' crawlers such as AltaVista's

Supporting Case Acquisition and Labelling in the Context of Web Mining - Svatek, Kavalec   (Correct)
Case acquisition and labelling are important bottlenecks for predictive data mining. In the web context, a cascade of supporting techniques can be used, from general ones such as user interfaces, ... / System for Intelligent WWW Metasearch. In Rudas I. J.Madarasz L. br query profile. In the Vseved meta-search project see for more

Case Study: A Combined Visualization Approach for WWW-Search Results - Mann, Reiterer   (Correct)
The idea of Information Visualization is to get insights into great amounts of abstract data. Especially document sets found by searching the World Wide Web are a special challenge. The paper gives a ... / of search results from a local meta search engine. This paper is br for usage with a local meta web search engine. . Introduction The

GlobSol Case Study: Gene Prediction (Genome Therapeutics) - Wang   (Correct)
A researcher has a DNA sequence of interest, and submits it to several gene search engines available on the Internet. The results returned are rarely in agreement, so we submit the original sequence a... / In Section we describe the meta-search problem as an optimization br and submits it to several gene search engines available on the Internet.

Techniques for Specialized Search Engines - Steele   (Correct)
It is emerging that it is very difficult for the major search engines to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date search service of the Web. Even the largest search engines index only a small proportion... / is not to build an index but to metasearch specialized databases that are br Techniques for Specialized Search Engines Robert Steele Department

Education via Nets - Schmitt, Claußen   (Correct)
In this paper we describe in some detail the project Education via Nets currently conducted at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe. The goal of this project is to intro... / Virtual Catalogue KVK is a meta search engine that searches through a br by special icons b Search engines Apart from the material

Information Retrieval on the Web - Page 6 - Broder, Henzinger   (Correct)
eRank citation ranking: Bringing order to the Web. Work in progress. URL: http://google.stanford.edu/#backrub/pageranksub.ps. [PPR96] P. Pirolli, J. Pitkow, and R. Rao. Silk from a sow's ear: Extract... / C. L. Giles. Inquirus the NECI meta search engine. In Proceedings of the br Giles. Inquirus the NECI meta search engine. In Proceedings of the

Chart of Darkness: Mapping a Large Intranet - Bailey, Craswell, Hawking   (Correct)
We introduce and de ne the concept of dark matter on the Web. Dark matter for a person or Web crawler consists of pages that they cannot reach and view, but which another observer can. Dark matter i... / information retrieval or meta-search systems which probe other br for information discovery and search engines integral to accessing this

Long-Term - Learning Global Intelligence   (Correct)
We propose a cooperative system of human beings and computers, called Global Intelligence (GI). Human workers in GI are supported by a computer system called GIANT (GI Associating NeTwork), which co... /

Web Structure Analysis for Information Mining - Lakshmi Vijjappu Ah-Hwee   (Correct)
Our approach to extracting information from the web analyzes the structural content of web pages through exploiting the latent information given by HTML tags. For each specific extraction task, an obj... / show its usage by implementing a meta-search engine that combines search br usage by implementing a meta-search engine that combines search results

Using Models of Score Distributions in Information Retrieval - Manmatha, Feng, Rath   (Correct)
Empirical modeling of a number of different text search engines shows that the score distributions on a per query basis may be fitted approximately using an exponential distribution for the set of non... / of different search engines the meta-search problem for more details see br of a number of different text search engines shows that the score

Proposal Id: P481 Proposal for MPEG-7 for Video Description Scheme.. - Paek, Li, Puri   (Correct)
this document. The basic components used in Image DS are inherited and extended for the video DS. In particular, objects are extended to video objects to add temporal information. Video objects are un... / is a new version of MetaSEEk a metasearch system for mediation among br The first system is a search engine that allows users to query

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Introduction This position paper summarizes my recent and ongoing research on Web information extraction and retrieval. I describe wrapper induction and verification techniques for extracting data... /

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