Paper Info
Title
Building a directory for the underdeveloped web: an experiment on the Arabic medical web directory
Abstract
Despite significant growth of the Web in recent years, some portions of the Web remain largely underdeveloped, as shown in a lack of high quality content and functionality. An example is the Arabic Web, in which a lack of well-structured Web directories has limited users' ability to browse for Arabic resources. In this research, we proposed an approach to building Web directories for the underdeveloped Web and developed a proof-of-concept prototype called Arabic Medical (AMed) Web Directory that supports browsing of over 5,000 Arabic medical Web sites and pages organized in a hierarchical structure. We conducted an experiment involving Arab subjects and found that AMed directory significantly outperformed a benchmark Arabic Web directory in terms of browsing effectiveness and user ratings. This research thus contributes to developing a useful Web directory for organizing information of the Arabic medical domain and to better understanding of supporting browsing on the underdeveloped Web.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-77094-7_59
ICADL
Keywords
Field
DocType
web directory,arabic medical,useful web directory,arabic resource,arabic medical domain,well-structured web directory,underdeveloped web,arabic medical web site,arabic medical web directory,benchmark arabic web directory,arabic web,proof of concept
Web development,Web design,World Wide Web,Information retrieval,Web page,Computer science,Web standards,Data Web,Web navigation,Social Semantic Web,Multimedia,Web directory
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4822
0302-9743
3-540-77093-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
11
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wingyan Chung177055.10
Hsinchun Chen29569813.33