Title :
WebSSQL-a query language for multimedia Web documents
Author :
Zhang, Changqing ; Meng, W. Eiyi ; Zhang, Zhongfei ; Wu, Zongh Uan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., State Univ. of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA
Abstract :
We describe an SQL-like query language-WebSSQL-for retrieving desired Web pages. WebSSQL has several unique features. First, WebSSQL assumes that each Web page is a multimedia document consisting of structured data, text data and possibly image data. Second, WebSSQL treats each page as a node in a directed graph composed of many Web pages and links among them. Third, WebSSQL is similarity-based meaning that the retrieved Web pages will be ranked based on their closeness to a given query. The traditional SQL does not support similarity-based retrieval and ranking. With WebSSQL, users can specify their search needs more precisely, leading to more accurate retrieval of useful information
Keywords :
Internet; SQL; directed graphs; document handling; information resources; information retrieval; multimedia computing; Web pages; WebSSQL; directed graph; image data; information retrieval; multimedia Web documents; query language; search needs; similarity-based meaning; structured data; text data; Airplanes; Data mining; Data models; Database languages; HTML; Information retrieval; Search engines; Software libraries; Uniform resource locators; Web pages;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in Digital Libraries, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0659-3
DOI :
10.1109/ADL.2000.848370
