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ProThes: thesaurus-based meta-search engine for a specific application domain

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In this poster we introduce ProThes, a pilot meta-search engine (MSE) for a specific application domain. ProThes combines three approaches: meta-search, graphical user interface (GUI) for query specification, and thesaurus-based query techniques. ProThes attempts to employ domain-specific knowledge, which is represented by both a conceptual thesaurus and results ranking heuristics. Since the knowledge representation is separated from the MSE core, adjusting the system to a specific domain is trouble free. Thesaurus allows for manual query building and automatic query techniques. This poster outlines the overall system architecture, thesaurus representation format, and query operations. ProThes is implemented on J2EE platform as a Web service.

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WWW Alt. '04: Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters
May 2004
532 pages
ISBN:1581139128
DOI:10.1145/1013367
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  1. information retrieval
  2. meta-search
  3. query operations
  4. thesaurus
  5. user interface
  6. web services

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  • (2008)Customizable Search Engine with Semantic and Resource Aggregation CapabilityProceedings of the 2008 10th IEEE Conference on E-Commerce Technology and the Fifth IEEE Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services10.1109/CECandEEE.2008.115(376-381)Online publication date: 21-Jul-2008
  • (2005)Web page prediction from metasearch resultsInternet Research10.1108/1066224051061518215:4(421-446)Online publication date: Sep-2005

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