Topic specific spider for taxonomic documents

The overall goal of the project being developed at KU as a part of SEEK is to provide an interface tool for a taxonomist through which he/she can obtain taxonomic revisions depending for the species provided to the system. This thesis, in particular, aims to develop a subsystem that collects taxonomic documents available on the World Wide Web using a combination of spidering and document classification techniques. To increase the number of documents collected, two query expansion techniques have been considered and evaluated. We found that generic query expansion performed better than the taxonomically expanded queries. Also, we show that filtering helps improve the performance of the system by reducing the number of non-taxonomic documents that are presented to the end-user.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Kansas

Year dc:date.issued

2007

Author dc:creator

• Kotcherlakota, Krishna Priya

• Applied sciences

Statement dc:rights

• This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author.

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1808/32038

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:kuscholarworks.ku.edu:1808/32038