Searchling: User-centered evaluation of a visual thesaurus-enhanced interface for bilingual digital libraries

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5173 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 117-121

  Stafford, Amy ^b   Shiri, Ali ^c   Ruecker, Stan ^a   Bouchard, Matthew ^a   Mehta, Paras ^d   Anvik, Karl ^a   Rossello, Ximena ^a  

^a Humanities Computing Program

^b Department of English and Film Studies ^*

^c School of Library and Information Studies

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Multilingual digital libraries; Thesauri; User evaluation; Visual interfaces

Indexed keywords

ALBERTA; BILINGUAL SEARCHES; COMMON KNOWLEDGES; INTERFACE DESIGNS; MULTILINGUAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES; QUERY FORMULATIONS; SCREEN CAPTURES; SEARCH TERMS; USER EVALUATION; USER STUDIES; USER-CENTERED; VISUAL INTERFACES; WORKING SPACES;

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; INFORMATION SERVICES; LIBRARIES; THESAURI;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 55249110819     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87599-4_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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