Combining Adaptive User Interface Construction with Constraints-based Query Translation to Improve Web Meta-Search

Lieming Huang, Ulrich Thiel, Matthias Hemmje, Erich J. Neuhold GMD-IPSI, Dolivostr. 15, D-64293, Darmstadt, Germany {lhuang, thiel, hemmje, neuhold}Darmstadt.gmd.de Abstract With the tremendous development of the Internet and the explosive growth of digital information, it has become more and more important and urgent for users to precisely search information in the World Wide Web. This paper proposes a method of combining adaptive user interface construction and constraints-based query translation in order to facilitate query inputting and improve the accuracy of query mapping. The experiments show that this method can greatly improve the retrieval precision.