Web-Specific Genre Visualization.
Ivan Bretan, Johan Dewe, Anders Hallberg, Niklas Wolkert, Jussi Karlgren · 1998
: 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...