A Search Engine for Restaurants using Seasonal and Regional Characteristics
Yeunjung Kim, Zhanying Jin, Sujoung Oh, Minsoo Lee · 2014
Abstract : There are so many restaurants and also sites that try to organize and list such restaurants. Some sites also try to provide primitive searching of restaurants but most of them are limited to basic lookup of restaurants by names. Ranking is a very important part of information retrieval systems. There are some basic ranking techniques but search engine ranking algorithms are closely guarded secrets. Therefore we'd like to create a search engine for restaurant using information related to seasonal and regional specialties. We think that it is helpful to search restaurants for seasonal specialties in a certain geographical zone. We implemented the search engine using Lucene, MySQL, and Jsoup and conduct a simple experiment.