CSQuest is a concept-based search tool developed by the AI Group in the MIS Department at the University of Arizona. Funded by the NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Library Initiative (DLI), the AI Group is responsible for the semantic retrieval and user customization research components of the Illinois Digital Library Project.

CSQuest contains a searchable computer engineering concept space (thesaurus) generated automatically using the NCSA 16-node SGI Power Challenge supercomputer. It includes about 280,000 computer engineering terms and 10M links. Users can use this server to identify other relevant search terms when searching Internet computer engineering servers or homepages (e.g., CS Technical Report sites).

The Illinois DLI project will continue to generate other large-scale engineering concept spaces in the following areas: Physics, Aerospace, Agricultural and Biosystems (Environmental), Automotive, Chemical, Civil, Geological and Mining, Marine, Materials, Mechanical, Nuclear and Energy, and Systems, Industrial, and Manufacturing. Please read our acknowledgment page for those who helped bring this service to life! For an example of what this service can do, try searching for the term artificial intelligence. For comments, please use our feedback form.

Single-term CSQuest
This server is appropriate for "concept divergence." You can only enter one query term at a time. The server will suggest other syntactically and semantically relevant terms.

Multiple-term CSQuest
This server is appropriate for "concept convergence." You can enter up to four query terms at a time. The server will suggest terms which are relevant to all query terms in ranked order.