Implementing a customised meta-search interface for user query personalisation

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...

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Hauptverfasser:	Anagnostopoulos, I., Psoroulas, I., Loumos, V., Kayafas, E.
Format:	Tagungsbericht
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Chaos Computer interfaces Database languages Delay Exact sciences and technology History Information and communication sciences Information retrieval Information retrieval systems. Information and document management system Information science. Documentation Merging Metasearch Sciences and techniques of general use Search engines Web pages
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Zusammenfassung:	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.
ISSN:	1330-1012
DOI:	10.1109/ITI.2002.1024655