Evaluating the effectiveness of term frequency histograms for supporting interactive web search tasks

Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 360-368

  Hoeber, Orland ^a   Yang, Xue Dong ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interaction; Query refinement; Search results exploration; Visualization; Web search

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; VISUALIZATION; WEBSITES;

INFORMATION NEEDS; INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE FEATURES; INTERACTIVE WEB SEARCHES; PRIMARY TASKS; QUERY REFINEMENT; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; SEARCH RESULTS EXPLORATION; TERM FREQUENCIES; USER STUDIES; WEB SEARCH; WEB SEARCH ENGINES; WEB SEARCH INTERFACES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 57549098610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1394445.1394484     Document Type: Conference Paper

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