VisiQ: Supporting visual and interactive query refinement

Web Intelligence and Agent Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 311-329

  Hoeber, Orland ^a   Yang, Xue Dong ^a   Yao, Yiyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information visualization; Interactive query refinement; Query space

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; USER INTERFACES; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVE QUERY REFINEMENT; QUERY REFINEMENT; QUERY SPACE;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 35348885536     PISSN: 15701263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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