TY - GEN
T1 - The anatomy of a multi-domain search infrastructure
AU - Ceri, Stefano
AU - Bozzon, Alessandro
AU - Brambilla, Marco
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Current search engines do not support queries that require a complex combination of information. Problems such as "Which theatre offers an at least-three-stars action movie in London close to a good Italian restaurant" can only be solved by asking multiple queries, possibly to different search engines, and then manually combining results, thereby performing "data integration in the brain." While searching the Web is the preferred method for accessing information in everyday's practice, users expect that search systems will soon be capable of mastering complex queries. However, combining information requires a drastic change of perspective: a new generation of search computing systems is needed, capable of going beyond the capabilities of current search engines. In this paper we show how search computing should open to modular composition, as many other kinds of software computations. We first motivate our work by describing our vision, and then describe how the challenges of multi-domain search are addressed by a prototype framework, whose internal "anatomy" is disclosed.
AB - Current search engines do not support queries that require a complex combination of information. Problems such as "Which theatre offers an at least-three-stars action movie in London close to a good Italian restaurant" can only be solved by asking multiple queries, possibly to different search engines, and then manually combining results, thereby performing "data integration in the brain." While searching the Web is the preferred method for accessing information in everyday's practice, users expect that search systems will soon be capable of mastering complex queries. However, combining information requires a drastic change of perspective: a new generation of search computing systems is needed, capable of going beyond the capabilities of current search engines. In this paper we show how search computing should open to modular composition, as many other kinds of software computations. We first motivate our work by describing our vision, and then describe how the challenges of multi-domain search are addressed by a prototype framework, whose internal "anatomy" is disclosed.
KW - modular decomposition
KW - multi-domain query
KW - search computing
KW - software architecture
KW - Web information retrieval
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79960279295&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-22233-7_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-22233-7_1
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960279295
SN - 9783642222320
VL - 6757 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 1
EP - 12
BT - Web Engineering - 11th International Conference, ICWE 2011, Proceedings
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin
T2 - 11th International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2011
Y2 - 20 June 2011 through 24 June 2011
ER -