WEB SEARCH RESULT CLUSTERING - A REVIEW

Abstract

The ever-increasing information on the web with its heterogeneity and dynamism needs an information retrieval system which serves searcher’s ambiguous, ill-formed, short queries with relevant result in a precise way. Web search result clustering has been emerged as a method which overcomes these drawbacks of conventional information retrieval (IR) systems. It is the clustering of results returned by the search engines into meaningful, thematic groups. This paper gives a succinct overview and categorizes various techniques that have been used in clustering of web search results.