The adaptability of english based web search algorithms to chinese search engines

Authors:
Louis Yu;Kin Fun Li;Eric G. Manning
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Venue:
APWeb'06 Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Web conference on Frontiers of WWW Research and Development
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Much research in recent years has been devoted to meta-search and multilingual search to improve performance and increase the scope of the search. Since most existing web search algorithms are originally developed for English web documents, one would question the efficiency and performance of these techniques as they are applied to documents of other languages. In this work, we have chosen Chinese web search and documents for our study. Potential issues and problems in applying well-known English language based algorithms to Chinese web documents are identified and discussed. Through our qualitative and exploratory quantitative analysis, it can be concluded that these algorithms and techniques cannot be directly used to develop an efficient Chinese search engine.