purpose:the user interface of federated search engines is very important because it can make effective search, retrieval, and user interaction with the system. . identifying the most important indicators of the federated search engine user interface is a solution to enhance the applicability of the search engine interface. the purpose of this study was to examine the role of search, screen, nav...

The paper describes the ALVIS annotation format and discusses the problems that we encountered for the indexing of large collections of documents for topic specific search engines. This paper is exemplified on the biological domain and on MedLine abstracts, as developing a specialized search engine for biologist is one of the ALVIS case studies. The ALVIS principle for linguistic annotations is...

  Wolfram|Alpha Computational Knowledge Engine software, despite all internet search engines, tries to provide the the best answer for a question or compute an equation in the most correct way based on the current knowledge. Therefore, given the unique characteristic of Wolfram|Alpha and its vast applications, the aim of the present article is to familiarize the biomedical scientists with...

World Wide Web is growing at a very fast pace and makes a lot of information available to the public. Search engines used conventional methods to retrieve information on the Web; however, the search results of these engines are still able to be refined and their accuracy is not high enough. One of the methods for web mining is evolutionary algorithms which search according to the user interests...

introduction: users’ performance and their interaction with information retrieval systems can be observed in development of their mental models. users, especially users of health, use mental models to facilitate their interactions with these systems and incomplete or incorrect models can cause problems for them . the aim of this study was the adjustment and development of health user’s mental m...

for years, search engines have been considered as one of the most frequently used information seeking tools through the web. efficiency, ease of use and search quality are the main factors for giving precedence over search engines. search quality is assessed based on the concept of page rank which is applied to scoring web documents. the structures designed for linkage among the pages of a site...

several semantic image search schemes have been recently proposed to retrieve images from the web. however, the query context is regularly ignored in these techniques and hence, many of the returned images are not adequately relevant. in this paper, we make use of context to further confine the outcome of the semantic search engines. for this purpose, we propose a hybrid search engine which uti...

Search engines have become a de facto gateway for people to finding information or shopping online. The reliability of companies in search results is critical as search engines determine what information people access. Major search engines provide two types of results — organic and paid. While paid results have been an advertising boon for search engines, they are expected to contain more comme...

purpose: the present research aimed to study internet and electronic recourses searching behavior of geography ph.d. students of tehran university. methodology: using a questionnaire survey, demographic features and educational trends of 61 studied students were analyzed. findings: results showed that all of the statistical population used e-mail services, databases and search engines. most of ...