Title :
A web retrieval support system with a comment sharing environment: toward an adaptive web-based IR system
Author :
Mitsuhara, Hiroyuki ; Ochi, Youji ; Kanenishi, Kazuhide ; Yano, Yuichiro
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng., Tokushima Univ., Japan
Abstract :
A search engine is frequently used to look up interesting/unknown topics in web-based exploratory learning, but occasionally it returns meaningless pages (hyperlinks), which can interrupt finding suitable pages. This paper describes a web retrieval support system with a comment sharing environment, which aims at reducing loads in search activity. The effectiveness of this system has been shown through an experiment. This system is not currently adaptive but can be extended to a web-based adaptive IR (information retrieval) system.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; information resources; search engines; Web Contents Observable System; WebCOBALT; adaptive web-based IR system; comment sharing environment; exploratory learning; hyperlinks; meaningless pages return; search activity; search engine; teaching material; user interface; web retrieval support system; web-based information retrieval system; Adaptive systems; Continuing professional development; Education; Educational institutions; Information retrieval; Learning systems; Search engines; Statistics; Uniform resource locators; Web search;
Conference_Titel :
Computers in Education, 2002. Proceedings. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1509-6
DOI :
10.1109/CIE.2002.1186196
