## Abstract In this paper we examine and compare multimedia Web searching by Excite and FAST search engine users in 2001. Findings include: (1) some differences between the Excite and FAST multimedia Web searches, (2) FAST users submit more multimedia queries but fewer audioβrelated queries, (3) FA
Multimedia document search on the Web
β Scribed by Giuseppe Amato; Fausto Rabitti; Pasquale Savino
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 659 KB
- Volume
- 30
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0169-7552
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β¦ Synopsis
While pages on the Web contain more and more multimedia information, such as images, videos and audio, today's search engines are mostly based on textual information. There is an emerging need for a new generation of search engines that try to exploit the full multimedia information present on the Web. The approach presented in this paper is based on a multimedia model intended to describe the various multimedia components, their structure and their relationships with a pre-defined taxonomy of concepts, in order to support the information retrieval process.
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