Query Translation and Answer Integration Towards Multimedia Meta-Search
Akihiro Kuwabara, Satoshi Oyama, Kazutosi Sumiya, Katsumi Tanaka · 2003
The quantity and the kind of contents acquirable with WWW are increasing every year. When we want to acquire the information about a certain matter, since these information distributes to a lot of websites and it is expressed by various me- dia, the function which searches these information effectively and unifies it is important. The conventional WWW meta-search engines are what unifies the retrieval by keyword Web pages based on the index information which each search engine has by performing duplicating removal, automatic classification, etc, and displays reference results. In this paper, unlike these, we propose the system which divides the question keyword group which the user inputted, performs reference processing to the search engines for various media, such as text search engines and picture search engines, and unifies these reference results automatically.