In this post is summarize the work i’ve done as Final Project for CS580 Neural Network in Chicago for Professor Graupe. This work has been later extended together with professor Clement Yu and published at CIKM 2005. General purpose search engines have provided the users with simple way of querying massive sources of information efficiently, but for domain specific problems better solutions can be developed. We present an application of the Lamstar Neural Network for domain specific web searches. The problem itself is really general and is about relating different topics in a domain specific web search, we present here an instance of the problem relating drug names and side effects. The system, working on top of existing search engines, will filter the results to improve the quality of the search via a properly trained Lamstar neural network, providing a list of links to the suitable pages while directly showing the most relevant portion of each page to the user.
Here is a presentation of the work: drugsearch.pdf