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Abstract | ||
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Metasearch engines offer better coverage and are more fault-tolerant and expandable than single search engines. A metasearch engine is required to post queries with and obtain retrieval results from several other Internet search engines. In this paper, we describe the use of the extensible style language (XSL) to support metasearches. We show how XSL can transform a query, expressed ir. XML, into different forms for different search engines. We show how the retrieval results could be transformed into a standard format so that the metasearch engine can interpret the retrieved data, filtering the irrelevant information (e.g. advertisement). The proposed structure treats the metasearch engine and the individual search engines as separate modules with a clearly defined communication structure through XSL. Thus, the system is more extensible than coding the structure and syntactic transformation processes. It allows other new search engines to be included just through plug-and-play, requiring only that the new transformation of XML for this search engine be included in the XSL. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2004 | 10.1016/j.jss.2003.08.241 | Journal of Systems and Software |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
information retrieval,metasearch engine,different search engine,individual search engine,xsl,interoperability,retrieval result,metasearch,new search engine,communication structure,search engine,single search engine,internet search engine,xml,proposed structure,fault tolerant,community structure | Search aggregator,Metasearch engine,Style sheet language,Search engine,XML,Information retrieval,Computer science,Interoperability,XSL,Coding (social sciences) | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
73 | 1 | The Journal of Systems & Software |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 9 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert W. P. Luk | 1 | 554 | 55.57 |
| Tharam S. Dillon | 2 | 2573 | 340.98 |
| Vincent T. Y. Ng | 3 | 504 | 122.85 |