TY - GEN
T1 - A Web searching guide
T2 - Internet search engines & autonomous interface agents collaboration
AU - Al-Nazer, Ahmed
AU - Helmy, Tarek
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The Internet represents the biggest communication media and its dimension increases every day. This continuous growth of information makes the Internet more and more interesting, but also the task of finding selected information becomes more complex and hard. Finding exactly what a user needs is not always an easy task: for example common search engines provide thousands of links for every search. Obviously not all these links are related to what the user really needs. In this paper, we present a Collaborative Autonomous Interface Agent (CAIA) that collaborates with the Internet search engines and supports the user in finding exactly the information consistent with his/her interest. A system has been designed, fully implemented and tested. The testing results shows a big improvement in the relevancy of the retrieved links and of the user's satisfaction by using CAIA+Google compared to using only Google.
AB - The Internet represents the biggest communication media and its dimension increases every day. This continuous growth of information makes the Internet more and more interesting, but also the task of finding selected information becomes more complex and hard. Finding exactly what a user needs is not always an easy task: for example common search engines provide thousands of links for every search. Obviously not all these links are related to what the user really needs. In this paper, we present a Collaborative Autonomous Interface Agent (CAIA) that collaborates with the Internet search engines and supports the user in finding exactly the information consistent with his/her interest. A system has been designed, fully implemented and tested. The testing results shows a big improvement in the relevancy of the retrieved links and of the user's satisfaction by using CAIA+Google compared to using only Google.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=48149088164&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/WIIATW.2007.4427621
DO - 10.1109/WIIATW.2007.4427621
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:48149088164
SN - 0769530281
SN - 9780769530284
T3 - Proceedings - 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2007
SP - 424
EP - 428
BT - Proceedings - 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops, WI-IAT Workshops 2007
ER -