Searching Web Documents Using a Fuzzy-Based Method

Abstract

<jats:p>Web searching could be more fruitful if a user could easily find documents which satisfy his/her needs in terms of structure, format and contents. Herein a solution through a fuzzy linguistic description of the document is proposed, a linguistic variant of standard metadata types. Linguistic expressions are used to qualitatively represent both meta-information and user needs and a matching system is developed to select the most compatible documents with the user profile. The documents retrieved by a web search engine are organized in clusters and ordered in each cluster.</jats:p>