Visualising sequences of queries: a new tool for information retrieval

Author

Beale, Russell ; McNab, Rodger J. ; Witten, Ian H.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Birmingham Univ., UK

fYear

1997

fDate

27-29 Aug 1997

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

62

Abstract

This paper describes a system that uses visualisation to assist a user in dealing with the information returned from a search engine. The user´s queries, and the documents they return, are represented by a 3D spatial structure that shows their relationships and provides a way of accessing and exploring the documents retrieved. It is implemented to work with the New Zealand Digital Library, a set of large document collections that is available over the Web. The visualisation scheme is a Java applet that is updated dynamically whenever the user makes a new search, and can be browsed alongside the search engine

Keywords

data visualisation; information retrieval; query processing; 3D spatial structure; Java applet; Web; document collections; information retrieval; search engine; sequences of queries visualisation; Computer science; Explosions; Information retrieval; Java; Multidimensional systems; Navigation; Search engines; Software libraries; Unsupervised learning; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualization, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1093-9547

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8076-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.1997.626488

Filename

626488