Latent semantic analysis for query interfaces of deep web sites

To further enhance the efficiencies of search engines, achieving capabilities of searching, indexing and locating the information in the deep web, latent semantic analysis is a simple and effective way. Through the latent semantic analysis of the attributes in the query interfaces and the unique entrances of the deep web sites, the hidden semantic structure information can be retrieved and dimension reduction can be achieved to a certain extent. Using this semantic structure information, the contents in the site can be inferred and the similarity measures among sites in deep web can be revised. Experimental results show that latent semantic analysis revises and improves the semantic understanding of the query form in the deep web, which overcomes the shortcomings of the keyword-based methods. This approach can be used to effectively search the most similar site for any given site and to obtain a site list which conforms to the restrictions one specifies.