WebSifter: An ontology-based personalizable search agent for the Web

Proceedings - 2000 Kyoto International Conference on Digital Libraries: Research and Practice, KyotoDL 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 203-210

  Scime, A ^a   Kerschberg, L ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information analysis; Ontologies; Prototypes; Search engines; Taxonomy; Thesauri; Web pages; Web search; Web server; Web sites

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL LIBRARIES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ONTOLOGY; QUERY PROCESSING; SEARCH ENGINES; TAXONOMIES; THESAURI; WEBSITES;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; INFORMATION REQUIREMENT; INFORMATION SOURCES; PROTOTYPES; QUERY CONSTRUCTION; RELIABILITY INFORMATION; WEB SEARCHES; WEB SERVERS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84951934718     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DLRP.2000.942176     Document Type: Conference Paper

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