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Pu, Hsiao-Tieh; Chuang, Shui-Lung; Yang, Chyan – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Presents a query categorization approach to automatically classifying Web query terms into broad subject categories to provide in-depth analysis of users' search interests. Describes a test on search engine logs in Taiwan that shows the approach is efficient in dealing with large numbers of queries. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Classification, Foreign Countries, Search Engines, Search Strategies
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Jacso, Peter – Online Information Review, 2001
Describes indexes to Web resources that have been created by librarians to be more discriminating than the usual Web search engines, some of which are organized by standard classification systems. Includes indexes by solo librarians as well as by groups of librarians, some in public libraries and some in higher education. (LRW)
Descriptors: Classification, Higher Education, Indexing, Librarians
Jansen, Bernard J. – 2002
End user searching on the Web has become the primary method of locating images for many people. This study investigates the nature of Web image queries by attempting to map them to known image classification schemes. In this study, approximately 100,000 image queries from a major Web search engine were collected in 1997, 1999, and 2001. A…
Descriptors: Classification, Computer System Design, Indexing, Information Retrieval