Synonymy & polysemy of natural languages together
with information overload are two main factors that
affect the relevance of Web hits. When
users submit a query, search engines usually return a
long list of hits with syntactic similarity. Users
are confronted with choosing a needle from a haystack
- relevant items from long lists of hits. This book
proposes an improved strategy for increasing the
relevance of Web search results via search term
disambiguation and ontological filtering. Results are
classified into an ontology, such as Open Directory
Project. Semantic characteristics...