1. Introduction: A perspective on Web Information Retrieval.
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Melucci, Massimo and Hawking, David
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INTERNET ,INTERNET searching ,WORLD Wide Web ,INFORMATION retrieval ,INFORMATION resources management ,RESEARCH ,BUSINESS enterprises ,PERFORMANCE - Abstract
This article discusses Internet Web Information Retrieval, which has reportedly encouraged both researchers and commercial business enterprises to utilize the network. The article suggests that use of the Internet for Web Information Retrieval has been supported by theoretical results, methods, experiments, and implementations. Manuscripts in the periodical are also discussed, which were selected from all submissions to be included in this special issue. Five papers were chosen, which deal with the functionality of Web searches, Web search users, topic distillation, link analysis, and performance.
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- 2006
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