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Watters, Carolyn; Amoudi, Ghada – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2003
Discussion of Web queries with geospatial dimensions focuses on an algorithm that assigns location coordinates dynamically to Web sites based on the URL. Describes a prototype search system that uses the algorithm to re-rank search engine results for queries with a geospatial dimension, thus providing an alternative ranking order for search engine…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Geography, Search Engines, Web Sites
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Chen, Hsinchun; Lally, Ann M.; Zhu, Bin; Chau, Michael – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2003
Discussion of the information needs of medical professionals and researchers focuses on the architecture of a Web portal designed to integrate advanced searching and indexing algorithms, an automatic thesaurus, and self-organizing map technologies to provide searchers with fine-grained results. Reports results of evaluation of spider algorithms…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Evaluation Methods, Indexing, Information Needs
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Cohen, Sara; Kanza, Yaron; Kogan, Yakov; Sagiv, Yehoshua; Nutt, Werner; Serebrenik, Alexander – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Describes EquiX, a search language for XML that combines querying with searching to query the data and the meta-data content of Web pages. Topics include search engines; a data model for XML documents; search query syntax; search query semantics; an algorithm for evaluating a query on a document; and indexing EquiX queries. (LRW)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Evaluation Methods, Indexing, Information Retrieval