Evaluation of query-expansion facilities of World Wide Web search engines

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Teo, Boon Chin.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Khoo Soo Guan, Christopher
• التنسيق: Theses and Dissertations
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2011
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Information retrieval and analysis
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42638
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

There are many non fee-based search engines for the World Wide Web. The recent introduction of query expansion facility in search engines helps to reduce information overload for the user. This study evaluates the query expansion facility of three search engines, AltaVista™, Excite™ and HotOIL™,...