Cat-a-Cone: An interactive interface for specifying searches and viewing retrieval results using a large category hierarchy

SIGIR Forum (ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)

Volumn 31, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 1997, Pages 246-255

  Hearst, Marti A ^a   Karadi, Chandu ^b  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ONLINE SEARCHING; QUERY LANGUAGES; USER INTERFACES;

LARGE CATEGORY HIERARCHY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030649813     PISSN: 01635840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/278459.258582     Document Type: Article

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