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The Interestingness Tool for Search in the Web
Iaakov Exman, Gilad Amar and Ran Shaltiel
Software Engineering Department, Jerusalem College of Engineering,
POB 3566, Jerusalem, 91035, Israel
Abstract. Interestingness – as the composition of Relevance and
Unexpectedness – has been tested by means of Web search cases studies and
led to promising results. But for thorough investigation and routine practical
application one needs a flexible and robust tool. This work describes such an
Interestingness based search tool, its software architecture and actual
implementation. One of its flexibility traits is the choice of Interestingness
functions: it may work with Match-Mismatch and Tf-Idf, among other
functions. The tool has been experimentally verified by application to various
domains of interest. It has been validated by comparison of results with those of
commercial search engines and results from differing Interestingness functions.
1 Introduction
Commercial web search engines are quite powerful and have achieved widespread
usage. Typically one starts interactive search with a set of input keywords, and after a
few search cycles, by gradual modifications of the input set, one halts search with a
result set considered satisfactory by some subjective criteria – not explicitly
formulated.
The introduction of the idea of Interestingness within web search allows one to
achieve two different benefits: a- to focus results on a certain domain of interest,
disambiguating domain overlaps; b- to offer explicit quantitative criteria for the
unexpectedness aspects of interestingness.
This work embedded these potential benefits into a flexible and robust search tool,
and validated the tool in various dimensions.
Next one finds references to related work.
1.1 Related Work
The literature on measures of Interestingness is very extensive and appeared in a
variety of contexts. Here we provide selected pointers to related work.
An introductory survey on Interestingness measures can be found in references
McGarry [6] and Klosgen and Zytkow [4].
More specific papers on Interestingness include Piatetsky-Shapiro and Matheus,
[8] and Tuzhilin [9]. The latter refers to integration of different measures of
Interestingness. Unexpectedness is explicitly mentioned as a measure of
interestingness for knowledge discovery by Padmanabhan and Tuzhilin [7].
Exman I., Amar G. and Shaltiel R..
The Interestingness Tool for Search in the Web.
DOI: 10.5220/0004178900540063
In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Software Knowledge (SKY-2012), pages 54-63
ISBN: 978-989-8565-32-7
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2012 SCITEPRESS (Science and Technology Publications, Lda.)