CWS: a comparative web search system

In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users conduct comparisons among a set of topics. A system called CWS is developed to effectively facilitate Web users' comparison needs. Given a set of queries, which represent the topics that a user wants to compare, the system is characterized by: (1) automatic retrieval and ranking of Web pages by incorporating both their relevance to the queries and the comparative contents they contain; (2) automatic clustering of the comparative contents into semantically meaningful themes; (3) extraction of representative keyphrases to summarize the commonness and differences of the comparative contents in each theme. We developed a novel interface which supports two types of view modes: a pair-view which displays the result in the page level, and a cluster-view which organizes the comparative pages into the themes and...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Jian-Tao Sun, Xuanhui Wang, Dou Shen, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zheng Chen
• Keywords: Comparative Contents, Comparative Pages, Comparative Web Search, Internet Technology, WWW 2006