DocuBrowse: faceted searching, browsing, and recommendations in an enterprise context

Browsing and searching for documents in large, online enterprise document repositories are common activities. While internet search produces satisfying results for most user queries, enterprise search has not been as successful because of differences in document types and user requirements. To support users in finding the information they need in their online enterprise repository, we created DocuBrowse, a faceted document browsing and search system. Search results are presented within the user-created document hierarchy, showing only directories and documents matching selected facets and containing text query terms. In addition to file properties such as date and file size, automatically detected document types, or genres, serve as one of the search facets. Highlighting draws the user’s attention to the most promising directories and documents while thumbnail images and automatically identified keyphrases help select appropriate documents. DocuBrowse utilizes document similarities,...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: IUI
• Authors: Andreas Girgensohn, Frank M. Shipman III, Francine Chen, Lynn Wilcox
• Keywords: Document, Document Types, Faceted Document Browsing, IUI 2010, Software Engineering