Review on the Study of Faceted Search
Jinhui Song · Electronic Science and Technology · 2012
For the traditional information retrieval,researchers focus on the precise inquiry technology,by which a large number of results,which may not be highly correlated,are returned for each search.The successful search results sorting algorithm usually returns the top K relevant results to meet most of the inquiry.However,most real search tasks are exploratory and inaccurate,and the user needs to explore the information space,discover the relationship between concepts,and narrow down the scope of choice in a guided way.So a exploring access paradigm called faceted search has emerged to satisfy this need.Its appearance overcomes the shortcomings of the traditional methods and lays a foundation for interactive information retrieval.This paper presents some definitions of faceted search and makes a study around the key technology,hot points,the latest progress and application prospect of faceted search.