Liquid query: Multi-domain exploratory search on the web

Alessandro Bozzon*, Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper we propose the Liquid Query paradigm, to support users in finding responses to multi-domain queries through exploratory information seeking across structured information sources (Web documents, deep Web data, and personal data repositories), wrapped by means of a uniform notion of search service. Liquid Query aims at filling the gap between general-purpose search engines, which are unable to find information spanning multiple topics, and domain-specific search systems, which cannot go beyond their domain limits. The Liquid Query interface consists of interaction primitives that let users pose questions and explore results spanning over multiple sources incrementally, thus getting closer and closer to the sought information. We demonstrate our approach with a prototype built upon the YQL (Yahoo! Query Language) framework.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWWW'10
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages161-170
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)978-1-60558-799-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event19th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW2010 - Raleigh, NC, United States
Duration: 26 Apr 201030 Apr 2010

Conference

Conference19th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityRaleigh, NC
Period26/04/1030/04/10

Keywords

  • exploratory search
  • federated search engine
  • multi-domain search
  • search computing
  • search engine
  • search service
  • web

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