  Retrieval performance experiment with the webspace method
Zwol van, Roelof and Apers, Peter M.G. (2002) Retrieval
performance experiment with the webspace method. In: 19th
British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 2002, 17-19 July
2002, Sheffield, UK.  Restricted to UT campus only : Request a
copy Abstract:Finding relevant information using search engines
that index large portions of the World-Wide Web is often a
frustrating task. Due to the diversity of the information
available, those search engines will have to rely on techniques,
developed in the field of information retrieval (IR).  When
focusing on more limited domains of the Internet, large
collections of documents can be found, having a highly
structured and multimedia character. Furthermore, it can be
assumed that the content is more related. This allows more
precise and advanced query formulation techniques to be used for
the Web, as commonly used within a database environment. The
Webspace Method focuses on such document collections, and