Another look at automatic text-retrieval systems
Communications of the ACM
A self-organizing semantic map for information retrieval
SIGIR '91 Proceedings of the 14th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
TileBars: visualization of term distribution information in full text information access
CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Reexamining the cluster hypothesis: scatter/gather on retrieval results
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Evaluation of a tool for visualization of information retrieval results
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A graphical, self-organizing approach to classifying electronic meeting output
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Map displays for information retrieval
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Self-organizing maps
Efficient construction of large test collections
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Internet browsing and searching: user evaluations of category map and concept space techniques
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: artificial intelligence techniques for emerging information systems applications
Exploration of large document collections by self-organizing maps
SCAI '97 Proceedings of the sixth Scandinavian conference on Artificial intelligence
Grouper: a dynamic clustering interface to Web search results
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
Discriminating meta-search: a framework for evaluation
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on progress toward digital libraries
First 20 precision among World Wide Web search services (search engines)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Comparing noun phrasing techniques for use with medical digital library tools
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue on digital libraries: part 2
Accessibility of information on the Web
intelligence
Information Retrieval
The text retrieval conferences (TRECS)
TIPSTER '98 Proceedings of a workshop on held at Baltimore, Maryland: October 13-15, 1998
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Design and evaluation of a multi-agent collaborative Web mining system
Decision Support Systems - Web retrieval and mining
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
CMedPort: a cross-regional Chinese medical portal
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Metacrystal: visualizing the degree of overlap between different search engines
Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Special issue: Part II: Information seeking research
EBizPort: collecting and analyzing business intelligence information
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Using web structure and summarisation techniques for web content mining
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Analysis of the query logs of a web site search engine
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Studying information seeking on the non-English Web: An experiment on a Spanish business Web portal
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Human-computer interaction research in the managemant information systems discipline
Building a scientific knowledge web portal: the NanoPort experience
Decision Support Systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
CMedPort: an integrated approach to facilitating Chinese medical information seeking
Decision Support Systems
Web searching in Chinese: A study of a search engine in Hong Kong
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of Management Information Systems
Collaborative relevance assessment for task-based knowledge support
Decision Support Systems
SpidersRUs: Creating specialized search engines in multiple languages
Decision Support Systems
Looking Ahead: A Comparison of Page Preview Techniques for Goal-Directed Web Navigation
INTERACT '09 Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Part I
Learning dynamic information needs: A collaborative topic variation inspection approach
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Using Web structure and summarisation techniques for Web content mining
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Toward enabling users to visually evaluate the effectiveness of different search methods
Journal of Web Engineering
ICDCIT'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology
Discovery of environmental nodes in the web
IRFC'12 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Multidisciplinary Information Retrieval
WNavis: Navigating Wikipedia semantically with an SNA-based summarization technique
Decision Support Systems
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It has become increasingly difficult to locate relevant information on the Web, even with the help of Web search engines. Two approaches to addressing the low precision and poor presentation of search results of current search tools are studied: meta-search and document categorization. Meta-search engines improve precision by selecting and integrating search results from generic or domain-specific Web search engines or other resources. Document categorization promises better organization and presentation of retrieved results. This article introduces MetaSpider, a meta-search engine that has real-time indexing and categorizing functions. We report in this paper the major components of MetaSpider and discuss related technical approaches. Initial results of a user evaluation study comparing MetaSpider, NorthernLight, and MetaCrawler in terms of clustering performance and of time and effort expended show that MetaSpider performed best in precision rate, but disclose no statistically significant differences in recall rate and time requirements. Our experimental study also reveals that MetaSpider exhibited a higher level of automation than the other two systems and facilitated efficient searching by providing the user with an organized, comprehensive view of the retrieved documents.