An empirical evaluation on semantic search performance of keyword-based and semantic search engines: Google, yahoo, msn and hakia

Proceedings - 2009 4th International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection, ICIMP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 51-55

  Tümer, Duygu ^a   Shah, Mohammad Ahmed ^b   Bitirim, Yiltan ^a  

^a EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Information retrieval; Keywordbased search engine; Semantic search engine; Semantic search performance

Indexed keywords

CUT-OFF; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EVALUATION; KEYWORD-BASED SEARCH ENGINES; KEYWORDBASED SEARCH ENGINE; SEMANTIC SEARCH; SEMANTIC SEARCH ENGINE; SEMANTIC SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTIC SEARCH PERFORMANCE;

ENGINES; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 70349448390     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIMP.2009.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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