Search facilities for internet relay chat

Authors:
Taher H. Haveliwala
Affiliations:
Stanford University, Computer Science Department
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Year:
2002

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Butterfly: a conversation-finding agent for Internet relay chat

IUI '99 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

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Abstract

The Internet encompasses a diverse array of information sources that have been indexed for efficient search, including the Web, Usenet, and email (both personal mail and specialized mailing lists). One information source, publicly accessible over the Internet, yet unarchived and unindexed, is the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) system. We are archiving several of the more useful technical-support-oriented IRC channels, with the goal of extracting, archiving, and indexing information that would help satisfy users' information needs.