Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Architecture of an Object-Level Vertical Search

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Architecture of an Object-level Vertical Search"
By Jianfeng Zheng and Zaiqing Nie
in the Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM), November 2009, pp. 51-55

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles.

This paper is a verbatim copy of the paper cited below. The lead author, Jianfeng Zheng, submitted the copied paper without the knowledge or permission of the coauthor, Zaiqing Nie.

Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article:

"Object-level Vertical Search"
by Zaiqing Nie, Ji-Rong Wen, and Wei-Ying Ma
in the Proceedings of the Third Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), January 2007


Current mobile Web search engines essentially conduct document-level ranking and retrieval. However, structured information about real-world objects embedded in static WebPages and online databases exists in huge amounts. We explore a new paradigm to enable Web search at the object level in this paper, extracting and integrating Web information for objects relevant to a specific application domain. We then rank these objects in terms of their relevance and popularity in answering user queries. We introduce the overview and core technologies of object-level vertical search engines that have been implemented in one working systems: Windows live product search on mobile (http://m.live.com).