Query Building to the Web Search Engines Using Thesaurus

Pavel Braslavsky
Urals State Technical University

The design of an query expansion assistant based on a thesaurus is
supposed. The thesaurus reflects the terminology of an restricted area
of expertise and is situated on an independent Web site. The assistant
allows to build complex queries to the universal Web search engines
more efficient and therefore increases the precision of the search. A
model and an example of the thesaurus, a breadboard implementation of
the assistant and some practical results are presented.