Vispedia*: Interactive visual exploration of wikipedia data via search-based integration

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1213-1220

  Chan, Bryan ^a   Wu, Leslie ^a   Talbot, Justin ^a   Cammarano, Mike ^a   Hanrahan, Pat ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data integration; Information visualization; Search interfaces; Semantic web; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRATION; DATA INTEGRATIONS; DATA SETS; DATA TABLES; DO-MAINS; FAST PATHS; HYPERLINK STRUCTURES; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVE; LONG TAILS; NON-UNIFORM; SEARCH INTERFACES; SEMANTIC GRAPHS; SEMI-STRUCTURED DATUM; VISUAL EXPLORATIONS; VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS; WEB-BASED; WIKIPEDIA;

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; INTEGRATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SEMANTICS; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 54949138406     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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