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Web-Specific Genre Visualization (1998)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the Webnet World Conference on the WWW and Internet |
| Citations: | 13 - 2 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Bretan98web-specificgenre,
author = {Ivan Bretan and Johan Dewe and Anders Hallberg and Niklas Wolkert and Jussi Karlgren},
title = {Web-Specific Genre Visualization},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the Webnet World Conference on the WWW and Internet},
year = {1998},
pages = {http://www.stacken.k}
}
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Abstract
: User interfaces to WWW search engines typically present results as ranked lists of documents. Such lists give users little help in understanding document variation: we propose a richer representation of retrieval results in the search interface. Fundamental to us is the notion of document grouping. We use both stylistic genre-based document categorization and statistical content-based clustering, and organize documents along these criteria in a highly interactive visualization front-end to WWW search engines, enabling quick overview and incremental query refinement. Introduction The vast majority of user interfaces to WWW search engines are still based on an exceedingly simple interaction model where a linear list of hits, i.e. document items, is sorted after so-called "relevance" with inner workings and metrics hidden and all but incomprehensible to most users: "This is appealing in its simplicity, but users are often frustrated as they do not know what the results mean, nor can th...
Keyphrases
web-specific genre visualization www search engine user interface stylistic genre-based document categorization ranked list inner working so-called relevance document grouping statistical content-based clustering simple interaction model search interface quick overview understanding document variation present result vast majority retrieval result document item linear list incremental query refinement user little help interactive visualization front-end
