A World Wide Web Resource Discovery System
Budi Yuwono, Savio L. Y. Lam, Jerry H. Ying, Dik Lun Lee · 1995
As the WWW grows at an increasing rate, efforts to make the technology more manageable are in great demand. Applying advanced information retrieval techniques is one approach to such efforts. Despite the potential benefit of these techniques in reducing users information overload and improving the effectiveness of access to online information, little research has been done on applying them to the WWW environment. In this paper, we present our attempt to apply the vector space retrieval model, relevance feedback mechanisms and a hypertext mapping technique as an integrated resource discovery system to the WWW. This paper discusses some design issues involved, as well as practical issues such as retrieval effectiveness, usability, and scalability.