Title
A language for manipulating clustered web documents results
Abstract
We propose a novel conception language for exploring the results retrieved by several internet search services (like search engines) that cluster retrieved documents. The goal is to offer users a tool to discover relevant hidden relationships between clustered documents. The proposal is motivated by the observation that visualization paradigms, based on either the ranked list or clustered results, do not allow users to fully exploit the combined use of several search services to answer a request. When the same query is submitted to distinct search services, they may produce partially overlapped clustered results, where clusters identified by distinct labels collect some common documents. Moreover, clusters with similar labels, but containing distinct documents, may be produced as well. In such a situation, it may be useful to compare, combine and rank the cluster contents, to filter out relevant documents. In the proposed language, we define several operators (inspired by relational algebra) that work on groups of clusters. New clusters (and groups) can be generated by combining (i.e., overlapping, refining and intersecting) clusters (and groups), in a set oriented fashion. Furthermore, several ranking functions are also proposed, to model distinct semantics of the combination.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1458082.1458089
CIKM
Keywords
Field
DocType
internet search service,search service,web documents result,distinct semantics,distinct search service,new cluster,distinct label,search engine,novel conception language,cluster content,distinct document,relation algebra,query language,query languages
Data mining,Web search query,Query language,Semantic search,Information retrieval,Ranking,Computer science,Ranking (information retrieval),Relational algebra,Exploratory search,Semantics
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.63
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gloria Bordogna1974103.99
Alessandro Campi235730.08
Giuseppe Psaila3722192.45
Stefania Ronchi4415.31