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Korean Institute of Information Scientists and Engineers (한국정보과학회)
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Efficient Web Document Search based on Users' Understanding Levels

사용자의 이해수준에 따른 효율적인 웹문서 검색

  • 심상희 (경인교육대학원 컴퓨터교육학과) ;
  • 이수정 (경인교육대학원 컴퓨터교육학과)
  • Published : 2009.01.15
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Abstract

With the rapid increase in the number of Web documents, the problem of information overload is growing more serious in Internet search. In order to ease the problem, researchers are paying attention to personalization, which creates Web environment fittingly for users' preference, but most of search engines produce results focused on users' queries. Thus, the present study examined the method of producing search results personalized based on a user's understanding level. A characteristic that differentiates this study from previous researches is that it considers users' understanding level and searches documents of difficulty fit for the level first. The difficulty level of a document is adjusted based on the understanding level of users who access the document, and a user's understanding level is updated periodically based on the difficulty of documents accessed by the user. A Web search system based on the results of this study is expected to bring very useful results to Web users of various age groups.

웹 문서 수가 급격히 증가함에 따라 인터넷을 검색할 때마다 발생하는 정보의 과부하 문제가 심각하게 부각되었다. 이러한 문제를 경감시키기 위해 사용자의 선호도에 부합하는 웹 환경을 조성하여 주는 등의 개인화 작업이 주목을 받고 있으나, 대부분의 검색 엔진은 사용자 질의어에만 초점을 두어 응답결과를 산출하고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 사용자의 이해수준에 따른 개인화된 검색 결과를 추출하는 방식에 대해 연구한다. 기존 연구와 차별화된 특징은 사용자 이해 수준을 고려하여 그에 맞는 난이도의 문서들이 우선적으로 검색되게 하는 것이다. 문서에 접근한 사용자들의 이해수준을 바탕으로 문서난이도를 변경시켜 주고, 사용자의 이해수준은 사용자가 접근한 문서 난이도를 바탕으로 주기적으로 변경시켜, 문서 난이도와 사용자 이해수준이 상호 연계되며 변경되도록 하였다. 본 논문의 결과를 적용한 웹 검색 시스템은 다양한 연령충의 웹 사용자들에게 매우 유익한 결과를 가져다 줄 것이다.

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