Categorizing web search results into meaningful and stable categories using fast-feature techniques

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 210-219

  Kules, Bill ^a   Kustanowitz, Jack ^a   Shneiderman, Ben ^a  

^a University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Browsing; Categorization; Classification; Metadata; Open directory; Taxonomies

Indexed keywords

OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECT (ODP); SEARCH RESULTS; STATISTICS WEBSITES; USER EXPLORATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; METADATA; STATISTICAL METHODS; TAXONOMIES; USER INTERFACES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 33847793862     PISSN: 15525996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1141753.1141801     Document Type: Conference Paper

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