Semantically driven snippet selection for supporting focused web searches

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 261-277

  Varlamis, Iraklis ^a   Stamou, Sofia ^b  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coherence; Human factors; Information selection; Performance and evaluation; Semantic similarity; Web passage retrieval

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEBSITES;

COHERENCE; HUMAN FACTORS; INFORMATION SELECTION; PERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; WEB PASSAGE RETRIEVAL;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 57649240433     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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