A Patten Matcher for English Idioms on Web IndeX

Web Index (WIX in short) is a system that achieves joining information resources on the Web. WIX replaces keywords in Web documents hyperlinks to other web pages based on a WIX file that a user chose. WIX file is a kind of a dictionary that have a set of WIX entries (keyword and target URL). Using WIX, users can join any Web contents and arbitrary dictionaries. In conventional WIX, matching and linking are executed only for fixed character strings between the keyword set and the input text. However, when a user wants to search for phrases like idioms, this matching system is not sufficient because of the declension of words, change of the verb tense, and so on. Therefore, we propose a phrasal pattern matching mechanism on WIX. This helps users easily find idiom expressions in the text on the web and get more information.