Analysis of web service retrieval methods

Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to investigate different Vector Space Model approaches for Web Service Retrieval in a manner that allows the retrieval of both SOAP and RESTful Web Services. The research also includes Latent Semantic Indexing and modified term-document matrix that allows to store scores for different service components separately. All indexing models are also investigated against different weighting schemes. Additionally, this chapter introduces three test collections that were used to test all approaches in terms of effectiveness and performance. The collections can also be used for many other benchmarks onWeb Service Retrieval.