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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Advanced Metasearch Engine Technology. Morgan & Claypool 2010 (OCoLC)401167990 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Weiyi Meng; Clement T Yu |
ISBN: | 9781608451937 1608451933 |
OCLC Number: | 707877337 |
Notes: | Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science. Series from website. |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 117 pages) : illustrations, digital file. |
Contents: | 1. Introduction -- Finding information on the web -- Browsing -- Searching -- A brief overview of text retrieval -- System architecture -- Document representation -- Document-query matching -- Query evaluation -- Retrieval effectiveness measures -- A brief overview of search engine technology -- Special characteristics of the web -- Web crawler -- Utilizing tag information -- Utilizing link information -- Result organization -- Book overview. 2. Metasearch engine architecture -- System architecture -- Why metasearch engine technology -- Challenging environment -- Heterogeneities and their impact -- Standardization efforts. 3. Search engine selection -- Rough representative approaches -- Learning-based approaches -- Sample document-based approaches -- Statistical representative approaches -- D-WISE -- CORI Net -- gGLOSS -- Number of potentially useful documents -- Similarity of the most similar document -- Search engine representative generation. 4. Search engine incorporation -- Search engine connection -- HTML form tag for search engines -- Automatic search engine connection -- Search result extraction -- Semiautomatic wrapper generation -- Automatic wrapper generation. 5. Result merging -- Merging based on full document content -- Merging based on search result records -- Merging based on local ranks of results -- Round-robin based methods -- Similarity conversion based methods -- Voting based methods -- Machine learning based method. 6. Summary and future research -- Bibliography -- Authors' biographies. |
Series Title: | Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.; Synthesis lectures on data management, # 11. |
Responsibility: | Weiyi Meng, Clement T. Yu. |
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Abstract:
Essentially, a metasearch engine is a search system that supports unified access to multiple existing search engines by passing the queries it receives to its component search engines and aggregating the returned results into a single ranked list. This volume provides an introduction to metasearch engine technology.
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- Web search engines.
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