Evaluating the Suitability of Web Search Engines as Proxies for Knowledge Discovery from the Web

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 96, Issue , 2016, Pages 169-178

  Martínez Sanahuja, Laura ^a   Sánchez, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

expert systems; hit count; information distribution; knowledge discovery; semantic similarity; Web search engines

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; WEBSITES;

HIT COUNT; INFORMATION DISTRIBUTIONS; KNOWLEDGE BASED; RESEARCH TOOLS; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; WEB INFORMATION; WEB USERS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84988826696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18770509     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2016.08.123     Document Type: Conference Paper

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