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Chang, Kevin C-C. Chieng, Steven K. 2011-01-21T22:43:42Z 2011-01-21T22:43:42Z 2013-01-22T11:00:24Z 2011-01-21T22:43:42Z 2010-12 The massive amount of information on the Web has led to the proliferation of vertical search engines, which are specialized for specific domains. Such engines can offer superior results through gathering and utilizing domain-specific information. In this thesis, we explore the idea of applying similar techniques to Wikipedia. We construct a conceptual model of vertical search and explain why Wikipedia is especially suitable for this form of search. We go on to analyze the difficulties of making full use of Wikipedia's advantages, and offer possible solutions. These solutions were tested through implementation of simple search scenarios across two distinct database architectures. Finally, we compare the performance and ease of implementation of the two architectures, consider the quality of results obtained from our searches, and offer suggestions for future work. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2010-12-07T13:37:49Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 latex_thesis.tex: 68342 bytes, checksum: c59bf1e4324fee3eb93eb120678767c6 (MD5) Chieng_Steven.pdf: 181087 bytes, checksum: c565d898e0a866314e0c2ba2c9fe378e (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-01-21T22:43:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 Chieng_Steven.pdf: 181087 bytes, checksum: c565d898e0a866314e0c2ba2c9fe378e (MD5) license.txt: 4063 bytes, checksum: dee60a68ede7202a6b019b1ace9a7761 (MD5) latex_thesis.tex: 68342 bytes, checksum: c59bf1e4324fee3eb93eb120678767c6 (MD5) Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by William Ingram (wingram2@illinois.edu) on 2011-01-21T22:47:52Z Item is restricted until 2013-01-21T22:47:37Z Item reinstated by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2013-01-22T11:00:24Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Dissertations and Theses (ID: 204) Dissertations and Theses - Computer Science (ID: 587) No. of bitstreams: 4 Chieng_Steven.pdf: 181087 bytes, checksum: c565d898e0a866314e0c2ba2c9fe378e (MD5) license.txt: 4063 bytes, checksum: dee60a68ede7202a6b019b1ace9a7761 (MD5) latex_thesis.tex: 68342 bytes, checksum: c59bf1e4324fee3eb93eb120678767c6 (MD5) Chieng_Steven.pdf.txt: 68412 bytes, checksum: f7ce497bf6894effc35fe8fec047e4c6 (MD5) Item released from any restrictions by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2013-01-22T11:00:24Z http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18504 en Copyright 2010 Steven Kuo Chieng wikipedia vertical search databases Enabling Vertical Search Over Wikipedia Computer Science 1434 Computer Science 0112 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S. MS:CS:BS/MS Program - UIUC 10KS1854MS