edu.columbia.cs.cg.prdualrank.searchengine
Interface SearchEngine

All Known Implementing Classes:

BingSearchEngine, WebBasedSearchEngine

public interface SearchEngine

This class is used for our implementation of: "Searching Patterns for Relation Extraction over the Web: Rediscovering the Pattern-Relation Duality" . Y. Fang and K. C.-C. Chang. In WSDM, pages 825-834, 2011. For further information, WSDM 2011 Conference Website .

Description

This interface gives the expected behavior of a Search Engine.

The search engine is used in the Algorithm PatternSearch(To,S,E) in Figure 9 on Section 5 of the mentioned paper.

Since:

2011-10-07

Version:

0.1

Author:

Pablo Barrio, Goncalo Simoes

See Also:

WSDM 2011 Conference Website

Method Summary

java.util.List<Document>

search(java.lang.String query, int k_seed) Issues query into the search engine and retrieves either k_seed or all the documents in the result set, whichever number is the lower.

Method Detail

search

java.util.List<Document> search(java.lang.String query,
                                int k_seed)

Issues query into the search engine and retrieves either k_seed or all the documents in the result set, whichever number is the lower.

Parameters:

query - the query to be issued

k_seed - the number of documents to be retrieved if lower than the total number of hits. All the results are retrieved otherwise.

Returns:

the list of documents contained in the result set.