SearchResultFinder: federated search made easy

Rudolf Berend Trieschnigg, Kien Tjin-Kam-Jet, Djoerd Hiemstra

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Abstract

Building a federated search engine based on a large number existing web search engines is a challenge: implementing the programming interface (API) for each search engine is an exacting and time-consuming job. In this demonstration we present SearchResultFinder, a browser plugin which speeds up determining reusable XPaths for extracting search result items from HTML search result pages. Based on a single search result page, the tool presents a ranked list of candidate extraction XPaths and allows highlighting to view the extraction result. An evaluation with 148 web search engines shows that in 90% of the cases a correct XPath is suggested.
Original languageUndefined
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 36th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2013
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages1113-1114
Number of pages2
ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-2034-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2013
Event36th Annual International ACM/SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2013 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: 29 Jul 20131 Aug 2013
Conference number: 36
http://www.sigir.org/sigir2013/

Publication series

Name
PublisherACM

Conference

Conference36th Annual International ACM/SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2013
Abbreviated titleSIGIR
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityDublin
Period29/07/131/08/13
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Keywords

  • EWI-24095
  • METIS-302567
  • IR-88557

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