Using Open Source in Enhancing Information Retrieval Systems Performance

There are many methods and suggestions proposed to improve the efficiency of search in order to catch up with the increasing speed of information boom on the web. Most of these proposals are concentrated on term frequency and page rank algorithms and yet very few of them focus on semantic relationship of content. The objective of this research project is to provide a semantic relationship model that can be used for semi-structured or unstructured information on the web to help improve the accuracy and efficiency of search engine.