Determining and satisfying search users real needs via socially constructed search concept classification

Zhu, Dengya; Dreher, Heinz

doi:10.1109/DEST.2007.372006

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Zhu, Dengya

Dreher, Heinz

Date

2007

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Conference Paper

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Zhu, Dengya and Dreher, Heinz. 2007. : Determining and satisfying search users real needs via socially constructed search concept classification, in Chang, Elizabeth and Hussain, Farookh Khadeer (ed), 2007 Inaugural IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE DEST), 21 Feb 2007, pp. 404-409. Cairns, Australia: IEEE.

Source Title

2007 Inaugural IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE DEST)

Source Conference

2007 Inaugural IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE DEST)

DOI

10.1109/DEST.2007.372006

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Curtin Business School

School of Information Systems

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19431

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Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

The focus of the research is to disambiguate search query by categorizing search results returned by search engines and interacting with the user to achieve query and results refinement. A novel special search-browser has been developed which combines search engine results, the Open DirectoryProject (ODP) based lightweight ontology as navigator and classifier, and search results categorizing. Categories are formed based on the ODP as a predefined ontology and Lucene is to be employed to calculate the similarity between retrieved items of the search engine and concepts in the ODP. With theinteraction of users, the search-browser improves the quality of search results by excluding the irrelevant documents and ontologically categorizing results for user inspection.