Improving web search by the identification of contextual information

  • Authors:
  • Fernando Aguiar

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Networks, Information and Multimedia, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, 158 cours Fauriel, F-42023 Saint-Etienne, France

  • Venue:
  • Intelligent exploration of the web
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The work presented in this chapter suggests a new model of Information Retrieval System to search for information in hypertexts underlying Web sites. The model is based on the construction of a 2-level index. One level concerns the HTML pages individually. The other one concerns the context of these pages. In this work we assume that the textual content of a HTML page is not sufficient for a indexing process to grasp the information the page conveys. Contextual information is located in complementary pages. Complementary pages for a given page are identified with the help of a complementary measure. This measure is based both on content and link analysis and assesses how complementary two pages are. By the use of both local and contextual information when indexing pages, the quality of their index is improved and so is the effectiveness of the search engine.