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Abstract
Internet and web services are capable of providing vast amounts of information and
offer efficient search over it. A number of more or less specialized search engines have
evolved over time for this purpose.
The web page www.najdiobrtnika.si was developed about a year ago. Its objective is to gather
as much craftsmen as possible and present information on them. The basic goal of the page is
to provide a user friendly search engine, designed to search for these craftsmen. On the other
hand, only storing and deploying information is not enough. User experience has become
more important than ever: the information should be presented clearly and access to it should
be simple and intuitive.
Our goal is to improve the user experience on this web page, in particular the
craftsmen search engine regarding to user's search queries. We record and evaluate search
queries in a log. We use the log to assist in further users' searches by suggesting similar search
queries. Besides suggesting related search queries, we provide relevant subcategories which
are most common within the results of the given query. We also attempt to provide automatic
search for search query synonyms with the use of Slovene wordnet. The main idea was to
append synonyms to user's original search query of user and use it altogether as key words for
searching.
KEY WORDS: lemmatization, sloWNet, text mining, search engines