Information extraction and gathering for search engines: the Taylor approach

Taylor, a search engine designed to reduce the effort required by a user for the perusal of documents is presented by delivering document passages to the user, rather than a list of pointers to documents.

Abstract

In this paper we present Taylor, a search engine designed to reduce the effort required by a user for the perusal of documents. This is accomplished by delivering document passages to the user, rather than a list of pointers to documents. We discussed our strategy, called extraction/gathering, where passages are extracted according to the query and the document structure, and gathered and delivered using virtual document technology. We describe Taylor and one of its application to a collection of Java-related documents. 1 Introduction Finding relevant documents is often only the first step to satisfy an information need. Once they know which documents contain relevant information, users may need to find information within these documents, compare them to other documents, summarise several documents together, etc. For example, suppose a user wants to find out the average weight of an adult male wombat. The first step would be to find documents about wombats. The second step would be t...