Implementing a customised meta-search interface for user query personalisation

Author

Anagnostopoulos, I. ; Psoroulas, I. ; Loumos, V. ; Kayafas, E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

79

Abstract

Nowadays it is commonly accepted that the web is structured in a chaotic way. Due to the fact that it grows exponentially, it is a difficult task to efficiently locate specific information. This paper presents a User-defined Meta-Search Engine (UMSE), adaptable to user preferences. UMSE utilises tip to 9 known search engines according to a user-defined ranking, submits its queries in parallel and finally presents the merging results back to the user. The anticipated outcome of using UMSE is that the user gets enhanced amount of information, recording in parallel his search preferences. UMSE also supports history features in order to personalise user queries and facilitate information retrieval.

Keywords

Internet; information resources; query processing; search engines; user modelling; UIVISE; User-defined Meta-Search Engine; World Wide Web; chaotic structure; customised meta-search interface; information retrieval; merging; search engines; user preferences; user query personalisation; user-defined ranking; Chaos; Computer interfaces; Database languages; Delay; History; Information retrieval; Merging; Metasearch; Search engines; Web pages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Interfaces, 2002. ITI 2002. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on

ISSN

1330-1012

Print_ISBN

953-96769-5-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITI.2002.1024655

Filename

1024655