Studies on improving retrieval accuracy in web information retrieval
Kazunari Sugiyama · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2004
With the rapid spread of the Internet, anyone can easily access a variety of information on the World Wide Web (WWW).Since information resources on the WWW continue to grow, it has become increasingly difficult for users to find relevant information on the WWW. In this situation, Web search engines are one of the most popular methods for finding valuable information effectively.However, users are not satisfied with the retrieval accuracy of search engines.We consider that the following two facts cause this problem:(i) accurate indexing of Web pages by considering their contents is not performed, (ii) most search engines cannot provide search results that satisfy each user's information need.