Context based search

[iarchie]

I am involved in developing technologies for context based searching. I am trying to find existing engines or test apps to know how effective they have been in addressing the problem. Basically I am trying to find benchmarks for various aspects of context based search if any :) . Any pointers?

[xan]

Hey there,

can I ask what your project is about and on what scale?

Context based search is still very much in research, so i would advise you read all the papers you can and test all the systems that have been presented to the solution:

PRISM source selection system
SCOOBS project

context research group (www.contextresearch.com/search/context_VSearchForm.cfm)

Indiana.edu (www.cs.indiana.edu/~leake/papers/p-01-02.pdf)

Placing search in context (www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/papers/context_search.pdf )

You assume that the query can be meant in 1 or more contexts, so you add multi-dimensionality to it. You're looking at document classification first of all.

If you are using markup then its fine, if not, there's a whole pile left to do in this area, and you're best starting out with UCREL or something like that.

I think you're best off contacting ACM groups or CLIR or checking out Microsoft or IBM research or something like that if you are developing.

[KeywordMonkey]

On the commercial side, as well as Adsense and the Yahoo Publisher Network when it is launched, there are Nixxie (http://www.nixxie.com/) , Quigo (http://www.quigo.com/) and TextWise. (http://www.textwise.com/) They may have white papers or demos on their sites which may be of interest.