African Web Portals

2011 ◽  
pp. 41-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esharenana E. Adomi
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

The World Wide Web (WWW) has led to the advent of the information age. With increased demand for information from various quarters, the Web has turned out to be a veritable resource. Web surfers in the early days were frustrated by the delay in finding the information they needed. The first major leap for information retrieval came from the deployment of Web search engines such as Lycos, Excite, AltaVista, etc. The rapid growth in the popularity of the Web during the past few years has led to a precipitous pronouncement of death for the online services that preceded the Web in the wired world.

A Roadmap to Integrate Document Clustering in Information Retrieval

2013 ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
R. Subhashini ◽  
V.Jawahar Senthil Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Clustering Algorithm ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Search Results ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

The World Wide Web is a large distributed digital information space. The ability to search and retrieve information from the Web efficiently and effectively is an enabling technology for realizing its full potential. Information Retrieval (IR) plays an important role in search engines. Today’s most advanced engines use the keyword-based (“bag of words”) paradigm, which has inherent disadvantages. Organizing web search results into clusters facilitates the user’s quick browsing of search results. Traditional clustering techniques are inadequate because they do not generate clusters with highly readable names. This paper proposes an approach for web search results in clustering based on a phrase based clustering algorithm. It is an alternative to a single ordered result of search engines. This approach presents a list of clusters to the user. Experimental results verify the method’s feasibility and effectiveness.

Using Semantic Web Concepts to Retrieve Specific Domain Information from the Web

2011 ◽  
pp. 249-270
Author(s):  
Rafael Cunha Cardoso ◽  
Fernando da Fonseca de Souza ◽  
Ana Carolina Salgado
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Specific Domain ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The World ◽  
Domain Information ◽  
The Web

Currently, systems dedicated to information retrieval/extraction perform an important role on fetching relevant and qualified information from the World Wide Web (WWW). The Semantic Web can be described as the Web’s future once it introduces a set of new concepts and tools. For instance, ontology is used to insert knowledge into contents of the current WWW to give meaning to such contents. This allows software agents to better understand the Web’s content meaning so that such agents can execute more complex and useful tasks to users. This work introduces an architecture that uses some Semantic Web concepts allied to Regular Expressions (REGEX) in order to develop a system that retrieves/extracts specific domain information from the Web. A prototype, based on such architecture, was developed to find information about offers announced on supermarkets Web sites.

World Wide Web Personalization

2011 ◽  
pp. 1235-1241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olfa Nasraoui
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Web Content ◽  
Web Personalization ◽  
Web Structure ◽  
Web Information ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

The Web information age has brought a dramatic increase in the sheer amount of information (Web content), in the access to this information (Web usage), and in the intricate complexities governing the relationships within this information (Web structure). Hence, not surprisingly, information overload when searching and browsing the World Wide Web (WWW) has become the plague du jour. One of the most promising and potent remedies against this plague comes in the form of personalization. Personalization aims to customize the interactions on a Web site, depending on the user’s explicit and/or implicit interests and desires.

Interactive IR in Web Search Engine Environments

2008 ◽  
pp. 83-115
Author(s):  
Iris Xie
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Web Resources ◽  
Web Search Engine ◽  
The World ◽  
Address System ◽  
Server Architecture ◽  
The Web

Tim Berners-Lee wrote the initial proposal for the World Wide Web in 1989, and developed it online in 1991 by using a hypertext model (Berners-Lee, 1989, 1996). The World Wide Web was developed to allow people to collaborate on projects; it began at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, and expanded across nations and disciplines. Berners-Lee (1996) defined the components of the Web: the boundless information world, the address system (URI), a network protocol (HTTP), a markup language (HTML), a body of data, and the client-server architecture of the Web. The creation in 1993 of Mosaic, a graphic Web interface that was the precursor of Netscape, enabled millions of people to easily access the Web. Since then, the increase in Web resources has been phenomenal, and Web search engines are the essential tools for navigating those Web resources.

scholarly journals Online and Plugged In?: Public History and Historians in the Digital Age

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meg Foster
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Public History ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Web

This article examines the complex and powerful relationship between the internet and public history. It explores how public history is being experienced and practiced in a digital world where ‘you’ – both public historians and laypeople – are made powerful through using the world wide web. Web 2.0 is a dynamic terrain that provides both opportunities and challenges to the creation of history. While it may facilitate more open, democratic history making, the internet simultaneously raises questions about gatekeeping, authority and who has the right to speak for the past. Though the web provides new avenues for distributing historical information, how these are used and by whom remain pressing questions. 

Enhancing Electronic Governance in Singapore with Government Portals

2011 ◽  
pp. 348-352
Author(s):  
Leo Tan Wee Hin
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Distinct Advantage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
The World ◽  
One Stop ◽  
The Web ◽  
Extract Information

The World Wide Web represents one of the most profound developments that has accompanied the evolution of the Internet. It is truly a global library. Information on the Web is increasing exponentially, and mechanisms to extract information from it have become an engaging field of research. While search engines have been doing an admirable job in finding information, the emergence of Web portals has also been a useful development—their distinct advantage lies in their positioning as a one-stop destination for information and services of a particular nature.

scholarly journals Developing a Framework for Assessing Information Quality on the World Wide Web

10.28945/2854 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirlee-ann Knight ◽  
Janice Burn
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World

The rapid growth of the Internet as an environment for information exchange and the lack of enforceable standards regarding the information it contains has lead to numerous information qual ity problems. A major issue is the inability of Search Engine technology to wade through the vast expanse of questionable content and return "quality" results to a user's query. This paper attempts to address some of the issues involved in determining what quality is, as it pertains to information retrieval on the Internet. The IQIP model is presented as an approach to managing the choice and implementation of quality related algorithms of an Internet crawling Search Engine.

Stickiness

2002 ◽  
pp. 153-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Supawadee Ingsriswang ◽  
Guisseppi Forgionne
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Computer Industry ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Online Consumers ◽  
Consumer Attention ◽  
Online Access ◽  
The Web

The past few years have borne witness to a revolution in business with acceleration in the use of the World Wide Web to support or, in many cases, supplant traditional modes of marketing and selling products and services. The Internet consumer base is continually growing. According to a report conducted by Computer Industry Almanac, Inc. (www.c-i-a.com, 1999), 490 million people around the world will have online access by the year 2002. With the rapid increase in the number of online consumers, the managers and marketers are moving to exploit this opportunity to reach millions of customers worldwide. Between 1997-1999, Internet hosts grew from 16 million to over 72 million worldwide (www.isc.org, 2000). The explosive growth of websites raises the question to the Web designer and marketer about how to attract consumer attention to their sites and how to differentiate their sites from other sites.

scholarly journals A Principled Methodology for Information Retrieval on the Web

10.28945/2972 ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Eayrs
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Content ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

The World Wide Web provides a wealth of information - indeed, perhaps more than can comfortably be processed. But how does all that Web content get there? And how can users assess the accuracy and authenticity of what they find? This paper will look at some of the problems of using the Internet as a resource and suggest criteria both for researching and for systematic and critical evaluation of what users find there.

Graphing in the Information Age: Using Data from the World Wide Web

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 298-304
Author(s):  
Juli K. Dixon ◽  
Christy J. Falba
Keyword(s):  
Middle School Students ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Information Age ◽  
School Students ◽  
The World ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Printed Materials ◽  
The Web

In the information age, middle school students must be intelligent consumers of information. to instill critical thinking with respect to statistical data, the interpritation and creation of graphs are essential. Although vast amounts of information can be gleaned from traditional text sources, the World Wide Web (WWW) offers information that is updated far more frequently than most printed materials. Because of the motivational aspects and expedient nature of using data from the Web, this article focuses on its use; however, each of the activities can be adapted for use with traditional, text-based media.

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