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       Search-Based Applications

       At the Confluence of Search and Database Technologies

       Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services

      Editor

       Gari Marchionini, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

      Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services is edited by Gary Marchionini of the University of North Carolina. The series will publish 50- to 100-page publications on topics pertaining to information science and applications of technology to information discovery, production, distribution, and management. The scope will largely follow the purview of premier information and computer science conferences, such as ASIST, ACM SIGIR, ACM/IEEE JCDL, and ACM CIKM. Potential topics include, but not are limited to: data models, indexing theory and algorithms, classification, information architecture, information economics, privacy and identity, scholarly communication, bibliometrics and webometrics, personal information management, human information behavior, digital libraries, archives and preservation, cultural informatics, information retrieval evaluation, data fusion, relevance feedback, recommendation systems, question answering, natural language processing for retrieval, text summarization, multimedia retrieval, multilingual retrieval, and exploratory search.

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      Search-Based Applications - At the Confluence of Search and Database Technologies

      Gregory Grefenstette and Laura Wilber

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      ISBN: 9781608455072 paperback

      ISBN: 9781608455089 ebook

      DOI 10.2200/S00320ED1V01Y201012ICR017

      A Publication in the Morgan & Claypool Publishers series

       SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON INFORMATION CONCEPTS, RETRIEVAL, AND SERVICES

      Lecture #17

      Series Editor: Gari Marchionini, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

      Series ISSN

      Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services

      Print 1947-945X Electronic 1947-9468

       Search-Based Applications

       At the Confluence of Search and Database Technologies

      Gregory Grefenstette and Laura Wilber

      Exalead, S.A.

       SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON INFORMATION CONCEPTS, RETRIEVAL, AND SERVICES #17

       ABSTRACT

      We are poised at a major turning point in the history of information management via computers. Recent evolutions in computing, communications, and commerce are fundamentally reshaping the ways in which we humans interact with information, and generating enormous volumes of electronic data along the way. As a result of these forces, what will data management technologies, and their supporting software and system architectures, look like in ten years? It is difficult to say, but we can see the future taking shape now in a new generation of information access platforms that combine strategies and structures of two familiar – and previously quite distinct – technologies, search engines and databases, and in a new model for software applications, the Search-Based Application (SBA), which offers a pragmatic way to solve both well-known and emerging information management challenges as of now. Search engines are the world’s most familiar and widely deployed information access tool, used by hundreds of millions of people every day to locate information on the Web, but few are aware they can now also be used to provide precise, multidimensional information access and analysis that is hard to distinguish from current database applications, yet endowed with the usability and massive scalability of Web search. In this book, we hope to introduce Search Based Applications to a wider audience, using real case studies to show how this flexible technology can be used to intelligently aggregate large volumes of unstructured data (like Web pages) and structured data (like database content), and to make that data available in a highly contextual, quasi real-time manner to a wide base of users