Title :
Clustering Web search results into contexts
Author :
Parameswaran, Sandeep ; Deepak, P.
Author_Institution :
IBM Global Services India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India
Abstract :
It is a common experience while Web searching that one gets to see pages that are not of interest. Partly these are due to a word or words in the search query having different contexts, the user obviously expecting to find pages related to the context of interest. This paper proposes a method for disambiguating contexts in Web search results. It was seen from the tests that the algorithms perform very well even when they have very little information to work with. Thus implementing context disambiguation as a meta-service may be an interesting experiment. Search engines usually provide results in pages of 10 (or more) results. Thus, a meta-service implementation of the disambiguator need process only 2-3 result lists, and thus 20-30 pages, at a given time and can defer the disambiguation of other pages to a time when they are actually required.
Keywords :
Internet; information retrieval; pattern clustering; search engines; word processing; Web search result; context disambiguation; meta-service; search engines; Educational institutions; Performance evaluation; Scalability; Search engines; Testing; Web search;
Conference_Titel :
Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8482-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICTTA.2004.1307927