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SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
A subjunctive exploratory search interface to support media studies researchers
Media studies concerns the study of production, content, and/or reception of various types of media. Today’s continuous production and storage of media is changing the way media...
Marc Bron, Jasmijn van Gorp, Frank Nack, Maarten d...
ICDE
2012
IEEE
232views Database» more  ICDE 2012»
12 years 2 months ago
A Dataset Search Engine for the Research Document Corpus
— A key step in validating a proposed idea or system is to evaluate over a suitable data set. However, to this date there have been no useful tools for researchers to understand ...
Meiyu Lu, Srinivas Bangalore, Graham Cormode, Mari...
ECIR
2011
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Visual Exploration of Health Information for Children
Abstract. Children experience several difficulties retrieving information using current Information Retrieval (IR) systems. Particularly, children struggle to find the right keywo...
Frans van der Sluis, Sergio Duarte Torres, Djoerd ...
APVIS
2006
14 years 1 months ago
FindFlow: visual interface for information search based on intermediate results
FindFlow is a search interface that enables users to construct queries visually on the screen. Because the constructed queries show the process of the search, the user can take a ...
Tomoyuki Hansaki, Buntarou Shizuki, Kazuo Misue, J...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Towards natural question guided search
Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
Alexander Kotov, ChengXiang Zhai
ERCIMDL
2004
Springer
180views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2004»
14 years 5 months ago
Next Generation Search Interfaces - Interactive Data Exploration and Hypothesis Formulation
To date, the majority of Web search engines have provided simple keyword search interfaces that present the results as a ranked list of hyperlinks. More recently researchers have b...
Jane Hunter, Katya Falkovych, Suzanne Little
SPIRE
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Task-Based Evaluation of an Aggregated Search Interface
Abstract. This paper presents a user study that evaluated the effectiveness of an aggregated search interface in the context of non-navigational search tasks. An experimental syst...
Shanu Sushmita, Hideo Joho, Mounia Lalmas
WSDM
2009
ACM
158views Data Mining» more  WSDM 2009»
14 years 6 months ago
A new visual search interface for web browsing
We introduce a new visual search interface for search engines. The interface is a user-friendly and informative graphical front-end for organizing and presenting search results in...
Songhua Xu, Tao Jin, Francis Chi-Moon Lau