Information Extraction and Gathering for Search Engines: The Taylor Approach

In this paper we present Taylor, a search engine designed to reduce the effort required by a user for the perusal of documents. This is accomplished by delivering document passages to the user, rather than a list of pointers to documents. We discussed our strategy, called extraction/gathering, where passages are extracted according to the query and the document structure, and gathered and delivered using virtual document technology. We describe Taylor and one of its application to a collection of Java-related documents.