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

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™,...

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Main Author:	Teo, Boon Chin.
Other Authors:	Khoo Soo Guan, Christopher
Format:	Theses and Dissertations
Language:	English
Published:	2011
Subjects:	DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Information retrieval and analysis
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42638
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Institution:	Nanyang Technological University
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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-426382020-09-27T20:14:00Z Evaluation of query-expansion facilities of World Wide Web search engines Teo, Boon Chin. Khoo Soo Guan, Christopher School of Applied Science DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Information retrieval and analysis 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™, in terms of the interactive interface, bookmark facility, refinement ability, quantity and quality of expanded terms and retrieval precision using the expanded terms. Master of Science (Information Studies) 2011-01-06T02:42:36Z 2011-01-06T02:42:36Z 1999 1999 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/42638 en 77 p. application/pdf
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spellingShingle	DRNTU::Library and information science::Libraries::Information retrieval and analysis Teo, Boon Chin. Evaluation of query-expansion facilities of World Wide Web search engines
description	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™, in terms of the interactive interface, bookmark facility, refinement ability, quantity and quality of expanded terms and retrieval precision using the expanded terms.
author2	Khoo Soo Guan, Christopher
author_facet	Khoo Soo Guan, Christopher Teo, Boon Chin.
format	Theses and Dissertations
author	Teo, Boon Chin.
author_sort	Teo, Boon Chin.
title	Evaluation of query-expansion facilities of World Wide Web search engines
title_short	Evaluation of query-expansion facilities of World Wide Web search engines
title_full	Evaluation of query-expansion facilities of World Wide Web search engines
title_fullStr	Evaluation of query-expansion facilities of World Wide Web search engines
title_full_unstemmed	Evaluation of query-expansion facilities of World Wide Web search engines
title_sort	evaluation of query-expansion facilities of world wide web search engines
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Evaluation of query-expansion facilities of World Wide Web search engines

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