eBizSearch: a niche search engine for e-business

Niche Search Engines offer an efficient alternative to traditional search engines when the results returned by general-purpose search engines do not provide a sufficient degree of relevance. By taking advantage of their domain of concentration they achieve higher relevance and offer enhanced features. We discuss a new niche search engine, eBizSearch, based on the technology of CiteSeer and dedicated to e-business and e-business documents. We present the integration of CiteSeer in the framework of eBizSearch and the process necessary to tune the whole system towards the specific area of e-business. We also discuss how using machine learning algorithms we generate metadata to make eBizSearch Open Archives compliant. eBizSearch is a publicly available service and can be reached at [3]. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]; H.5 [Information Interface and Presentation]; I.2 [Artificial Intelligence]; I.7 [Document and Text Processing]. General Terms Al...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: SIGIR
• Authors: C. Lee Giles, Yves Petinot, Pradeep B. Teregowda, Hui Han, Steve Lawrence, Arvind Rangaswamy, Nirmal Pal
• Keywords: General-purpose Search Engines, Niche Search Engine, Search Engine, SIGIR 2003