Online Information Retrieval Systems Trending From Evolutionary to Revolutionary Approach

Author(s):  
Zahid Ashraf Wani ◽  
Huma Shafiq

Nowadays, we all rely on cyberspace for our information needs. We make use of different types of search tools. Some of them have specialization in a specific format or two, while few can crawl a good portion of the web irrespective of formats. Therefore, it is very imperative for information professionals to have thorough understandings of these tools. As such, the chapter is an endeavor to delve deep and highlight various trends in online information retrieval from primitive to modern ones. The chapter also made an effort to envisage the future requirements and expectation keeping in view the ever-increasing dependence on diverse species of information retrieval tools.

Author(s):  
Zahid Ashraf Wani ◽  
Huma Shafiq

Nowadays we are all relying on cyberspace for our information needs. We make use of different types of search tools one is varying in features and indexing depth other. Some of them have specialization in a specific format or two, while few can crawl good portion of web irrespective of formats. Therefore it is very imperative for information professionals to have thorough understandings of these tools. As such the chapter is an endeavor to delve deep and highlight various trends in online information retrieval from primitive to modern ones. Besides, the module also made an effort to envisage the future requirements and expectation keeping in view the ever-increasing dependence on diverse species of information retrieval tools.


We began the domain examination process by social occasion source information. We gathered distributed papers in the conflation algorithms branch of knowledge as domain archives and the source code of conflation algorithms for system engineering examination. In the wake of building skill about the conflation algorithms domain, we rounded out system portrayal surveys for every last one of these algorithms. Imperative segments of our domain investigation process are in the accompanying subsections. With the gigantic measure of information accessible on the web, it is extremely fundamental to recover precise information for some client inquiry. There are heaps of methodologies used to expand the adequacy of online information retrieval. The conventional methodology used to recover information for some client question is to search the reports present in the corpus word by word for the given inquiry. This methodology is extremely tedious and it might miss a portion of the related records of equivalent significance. Therefore to stay away from these circumstances, Stemming has been broadly utilized in different Information Retrieval Systems to build the retrieval exactness


2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (95) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
S M Zabed Ahmed ◽  
Cliff McKnight ◽  
Charles Oppenhein

This paper presents the results of a heuristic evaluation with the Web of Science interface. Three human factors experts carried out their independent evaluation. The findings were then analysed and combined to discuss them with expert members to reach a consensus on usability issues identified. The heuristic evaluation helped to identify a number of both positive and negative aspects in the Web of Science interface. The key strength of the then current interface was its consistency in terms of conventions used, screen layouts, minimum use of colours, and use of graphics and icons.The main weakness lay in its functionality, i.e., searching, navigation, online help, etc. The results show the effectiveness of a heuristlc approach to evaluating user interfaces to online information retrieval systems.


Author(s):  
Max Chevalier ◽  
Christine Julien ◽  
Chantal Soulé-Dupuy

Searching information can be realized thanks to specific tools called Information Retrieval Systems IRS (also called “search engines”). To provide more accurate results to users, most of such systems offer personalization features. To do this, each system models a user in order to adapt search results that will be displayed. In a multi-application context (e.g., when using several search engines for a unique query), personalization techniques can be considered as limited because the user model (also called profile) is incomplete since it does not exploit actions/queries coming from other search engines. So, sharing user models between several search engines is a challenge in order to provide more efficient personalization techniques. A semantic architecture for user profile interoperability is proposed to reach this goal. This architecture is also important because it can be used in many other contexts to share various resources models, for instance a document model, between applications. It is also ensuring the possibility for every system to keep its own representation of each resource while providing a solution to easily share it.


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