Subject indexes were an important step forward for books because they enabled the comparison and correlations of information without extensive reading, re-reading and memorization...
Ed Huai-hsin Chi, Lichan Hong, Julie Heiser, Stuar...
Most information retrieval technologies are designed to facilitate information discovery. However, much knowledge work involves finding and re-using previously seen information. W...
Susan T. Dumais, Edward Cutrell, Jonathan J. Cadiz...
We report on the design and evaluation of a visualization tool for Information Retrieval (IR) systems that aims to help the end user in the following respects:
In contrast to traditional document retrieval, a web page as a whole is not a good information unit to search because it often contains multiple topics and a lot of irrelevant inf...