A Meta Search Engine for User Adaptive Information Retrieval Interfaces for Desktop and Mobile Devices
Ernesto William De Luca, Andreas Nürnberger · 2005
In this paper we present an information retrieval system (meta search engine) that provides web service based methods for user and query specific annotation of search results. The system currently supports two types of annotations: Categorization based on information extracted from user bookmarks (Intelligent Bookmarks) and semantic disambiguation of query terms in documents using an ontology that can be selected by the user (Sense Folders). We describe both approaches and present adaptive user interfaces for different devices (mobile and desktop) that use these services in order to improve the user’s search process. Furthermore, we discuss the advantages of dividing query results set processing (the information to be presented) from the interface design (information presentation) using web services in order to simplify the development of retrieval systems for, e.g., different desktop as well as mobile devices.