Enhancing Personalized Indexing with XML
Shin‐jeng Lin · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2004
Studies show that revisiting Web pages constitutes a significant segment of Web navigation and information retrieval.To facilitate more efficient re-visitation of Web pages, Personalized Indexing (PI) is developing as a tool that enables a user to index and categorize the Web pages of interest in his/ her own terms.Furthermore, it allows a user to dynamically re-group their information collection tailored to his/ her information problems at hand.However, currently PI does not reflect the fact that personal knowledge is cumulative, analogical, and continuous, as there is no granularity of indexed terms.The conceptual relationships among index terms, including synonyms, homonyms, and semantic relations, are not recognized by PI.This paper will explore how XML and its family technology can be utilized to help construct a personal vocabulary management mechanism to supplement PI.It concludes with future research directions to meet the newly raised usability concerns.