Share Paper: Win the Search Engine Wars with Intelligent Meta-Search and Clustering Technology

  1. Tamas Doszkocs, National Library of Medicine, United States
Wednesday, October 26 1:30 PM-2:00 PM Junior Ballroom B

Abstract: The National Library of Medicine’s ToxSeek R & D project has resulted in a next generation meta-search engine that enables the simultaneous searching of heterogeneous, distributed and cross-disciplinary information sources on the World Wide Web with improved precision and relevance. ToxSeek retrieves, merges and ranks the search results into a coherent and dynamic “virtual knowledge base” by utilizing “best practices” Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence tools and techniques. The ToxSeek technology incorporates powerful focused drill-down capabilities that include automatically generated “on-the-fly” taxonomies, intelligent clustering of search results and dynamic query refinement. ToxSeek has been successfully deployed in ...