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SpidersRUs: automated development of vertical search engines in different domains and languages

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International Conference on Digital Libraries archive
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries table of contents

Denver, CO, USA

SESSION: Tools & techniques track: searching and IR table of contents

Pages: 110 - 111

Year of Publication: 2005

ISBN:1-58113-876-8

Authors

Michael Chau	University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Jialun Qin	University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Yilu Zhou	University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Chunju Tseng	University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Hsinchun Chen	University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGIR: ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval
SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

In this paper we discuss the architecture of a tool designed to help users develop vertical search engines in different domains and different languages. The design of the tool is presented and an evaluation study was conducted, showing that the system is easier to use than other existing tools.

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	Michael Chau , Xiao Fang , Christopher C. Yang, Web searching in Chinese: A study of a search engine in Hong Kong, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, v.58 n.7, p.1044-1054, May 2007
	Michael Chau , Yan Lu , Xiao Fang , Christopher C. Yang, Characteristics of character usage in Chinese Web searching, Information Processing and Management: an International Journal, v.45 n.1, p.115-130, January, 2009