SpringerLink
Log in

WebSail: From On-line Learning to Web Search

  • Short Paper
  • Published:
Knowledge and Information Systems Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

In this paper we report our research on building WebSail, an intelligent web search engine that is able to perform real-time adaptive learning. WebSail learns from the user's relevance feedback, so that it is able to speed up its search process and to enhance its search performance. We design an efficient adaptive learning algorithm TW2 to search for web documents. WebSail employs TW2 together with an internal index database and a real-time meta-searcher to perform real-time adaptive learning to find desired documents with as little relevance feedback from the user as possible. The architecture and performance of WebSail are also discussed.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Subscribe and save

Springer+ Basic
EUR 32.99 /Month
  • Get 10 units per month
  • Download Article/Chapter or Ebook
  • 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe now

Buy Now

Price includes VAT (Germany)

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, Texas, USA, US

    Zhixiang Chen & Richard H. Fowler

  2. Department of Computer Science, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA, US

    **annong Meng

  3. Department of Computer Science, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA, US

    Binhai Zhu

Authors
  1. Zhixiang Chen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. **annong Meng
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Binhai Zhu
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Richard H. Fowler
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Received 3 November 2000 / Revised 13 March 2001 / Accepted in revised form 17 April 2001

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Chen, Z., Meng, X., Zhu, B. et al. WebSail: From On-line Learning to Web Search. Knowl Inform Sys 4, 219–227 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s101150200005

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s101150200005

Search

Navigation