TY - GEN
T1 - Architecture of a metasearch engine that supports user information needs
AU - Glover, Eric J.
AU - Lawrence, Steve
AU - Birmingham, William P.
AU - Giles, C. Lee
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - 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 results. These decisions are typically made by considering only the user's keyword query, neglecting the larger information need. Users with specific needs, such as `research papers' or `homepages,' are not able to express these needs in a way that affects the decisions made by the metasearch engine. In this paper, we describe a metasearch engine architecture that considers the user's information need for each decision. Users with different needs, but the same keyword query, may search different sub-search engines, have different modifications made to their query, and have results ordered differently. Our architecture combines several powerful approaches together in a single general purpose metasearch engine.
AB - 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 results. These decisions are typically made by considering only the user's keyword query, neglecting the larger information need. Users with specific needs, such as `research papers' or `homepages,' are not able to express these needs in a way that affects the decisions made by the metasearch engine. In this paper, we describe a metasearch engine architecture that considers the user's information need for each decision. Users with different needs, but the same keyword query, may search different sub-search engines, have different modifications made to their query, and have results ordered differently. Our architecture combines several powerful approaches together in a single general purpose metasearch engine.
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U2 - 10.1145/319950.319980
DO - 10.1145/319950.319980
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0033279708
SN - 1581131461
SN - 9781581131468
T3 - International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings
SP - 210
EP - 216
BT - International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings
PB - ACM
T2 - Proceedings of the 1999 8th International Conference on Information Knowledge Management (CIKM'99)
Y2 - 2 November 1999 through 6 November 1999
ER -