Evaluation of a tool for visualization of information retrieval results
Aravindan Veerasamy, Nicholas J. Belkin · 1996
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: .As art indicator of document relevance, the tool graphically provides specific query related information about irtdividual documents .As a diagnosis tool, it graphically provides aggregate information about the query results that could help in identifying how the different query terms influence the retrieval and ranking of documents.Two different experiments using TREC-4 data were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of tlus tool.Results, while mixed, indicate that visualization of this sort may provide useful support for judging the relevance of documents, in particular by enabling users to make more accurate decisions about which documents to inspect in detail.Problems in evaluation of such tools in interactive environments are dtscussed 1 Permission to make digitat/hard copy of all part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage, the copyright notice, the title of the publication and its date appear, and notice.is given that copying is by