Query Refinement for Domain-Specific Web Search
Satoshi Oyama · Kyoto University Research Information Repository (Kyoto University) · 2002
The expansion of the Internet and the number of its users has raised many new problems in information retrieval. The most common way to find information in the web is using web search engines. However, gathering information from the web is a difficult task for a novice user even if he uses the search engines. The user must have experience and skill to find the relevant pages from the large number of documents returned, which often cover a wide variety of topics.