Wiggins, R.; Matthews, J.A.: Plateaus, peaks, and promises : the Infonortics '98 search engines conference (1998)
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- Abstract
- Reports on the Infonortics '98 conference on 'Search Engines and Beyond', held at Boston, Massachusetts, 1-2 April 1998. Presenters included some of the leading developers of search engine technology as well as researchers in the field of information retrieval (IR). Summarizes papers on the following topics: the state of IR today; statistical approaches to IR; the history of enhanced statistical engines and commercial online services; new features in Web search engines; Inktomi full text index services; distributed searching; natural language processing and linguistics-based applications; Northern Light service features; challenges to IR including knowledge management systems using Adaptive Probabilistic Concept Modelling; Verity's Knowledge Organizer product; cross-language retrieval; image analysis products and video processing software; trends in knowledge extraction tools; the state of the information industry; the expectations of end users; and the development of tests for measuring search engine technology
