Conceptual Graphs from Search Engines

MPhil Thesis Defence


Title: "Conceptual Graphs from Search Engines"

By

Miss Hing-Yuet Fung


Abstract

The web search engine works on the World Wide Web upon human command. In 
addition to advances in the young sciences of information retrieval, 
knowledge management, etc., development of the search engine is confined 
by the evolution and understanding of both of these two sides, despite the 
satisfying performance achieved so far, e.g. by Google Inc, a leading 
company in search technology. As a self-contained thesis, it reviews the 
contextual setting of the Web and search engines and surveys the 
representative power of conceptual graphs and ontology on the human mind. 
After summarising some recent related works, it presents an explorational 
project of extracting conceptual graphs with a search engine and using the 
conceptual graphs to improve the search engine for better personalisation. 
Entropy is attached to each vertex as a weighting, fine-tuned with the 
PageRank algorithm over the whole graph.


Date:			Monday, 23 August 2010

Time:			2:00pm – 4:00pm

Venue:			Room 3405
 			Lifts 17/18

Committee Members:	Prof. Dik-Lun Lee (Supervisor)
 			Dr. Wilfred Ng (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Ke Yi


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