WebSail: From On-line Learning to Web Search

  • Authors:
  • Zhixiang Chen;Xiannong Meng;Richard H. Fowler;Binhai Zhu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • WISE '00 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'00)-Volume 1 - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the applicability of on-line learning algorithms to the real-world problem of web search. Consider that web documents are indexed using n Boolean features. We first present a practically efficient on-line learning algorithm TW2 to search for web documents represented by a disjunction of at most k relevant features. We then design and implement WebSail, a real-time adaptive web search learner, with TW2 as its learning component. Web-Sail learns from the user's relevance feedback in real-time and helps the user to search for the desired web documents. The architecture and performance of WebSail are also discussed.