An evaluation of retrieval effectiveness for a full-text document-retrieval system
Communications of the ACM
A behavioral approach to information retrieval system design
Journal of Documentation
Braque: design of an interface to support user interaction in information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on hypertext and information retrieval
IBM computer usability satisfaction questionnaires: psychometric evaluation and instructions for use
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
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
Comparing representations in Chinese information retrieval
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
PAT-tree-based keyword extraction for Chinese information retrieval
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Efficient crawling through URL ordering
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
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
Grouper: a dynamic clustering interface to Web search results
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
Focused crawling: a new approach to topic-specific Web resource discovery
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
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
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue on digital libraries: part 2
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
A highly scalable and effective method for metasearch
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
MetaSpider: meta-searching and categorization on the Web
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Retrieval
Using sentence-selection heuristics to rank text segments in TXTRACTOR
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
A Machine Learning Approach to Building Domain-Specific Search Engines
IJCAI '99 Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Modeling the information-seeking behavior of social scientists: Ellis's study revisited
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
HelpfulMed: intelligent searching for medical information over the internet
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Word association norms, mutual information, and lexicography
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Multi-paragraph segmentation of expository text
ACL '94 Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
MedicoPort: A medical search engine for all
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
BioPortal Infectious Disease Informatics research: disease surveillance and situational awareness
dg.o '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international conference on Digital government research
A multilingual knowledge management system: A case study of FAO and WAICENT
Decision Support Systems
SpidersRUs: Creating specialized search engines in multiple languages
Decision Support Systems
Dark web forums portal: searching and analyzing Jihadist forums
ISI'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Intelligence and security informatics
Multilingual knowledge management
Artificial intelligence
Knowledge mapping for rapidly evolving domains: A design science approach
Decision Support Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
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As the number of non-English resources available on the Web is increasing rapidly, developing information retrieval techniques for non-English languages is becoming an urgent and challenging issue. In this research to facilitate information seeking in a multilingual world, we focused on discovering how search-engine techniques developed for English could be generalized for use with other languages. We proposed a general framework incorporating a focused collection-building technique, a generic language processing ability, an integration of information resources, and a post-retrieval analysis module. Based on this approach, we developed CMedPort, a Chinese Web portal in the medical domain that not only allows users to search for Web pages from local collections and meta-search engines but also provides encoding conversion between simplified and traditional Chinese to support cross-regional search and document summarization and categorization. User studies were conducted to compare the effectiveness and efficiency of CMedPort with those of three major Chinese search engines. Results indicate that CMedPort achieved similar accuracy for search tasks, but exhibited significantly higher recall than each of the three search engines as well as higher precision than two of the search engines for browse tasks. There were no significant differences among the efficiency measures for CMedPort and benchmarks systems. A post-questionnaire regarding system usability indicated that CMedPort achieved significantly higher user satisfaction than any of the three benchmark systems. The subjects especially liked CMedPort's categorizer, commenting that it helped improve understanding of search results. These encouraging outcomes suggest a promising future for applying our approach to Internet searching and browsing in a multilingual world.