InfoScent evaluator: A semi-automated tool to evaluate semantic appropriateness of hyperlinks in a web site

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 206, Issue , 2006, Pages 373-376

  Katsanos, Christos ^a   Tselios, Nikolaos ^a   Avouris, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

information foraging theory; LSA index; proximal cue; semi automated tools; web usability evaluation

Indexed keywords

HYPERLINKS; INFORMATION ARCHITECTURES; INFORMATION FORAGING; INFORMATION SEARCH; LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; SEMI-AUTOMATED; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TEXTUAL DESCRIPTION; THEORETICAL MODELS; WEB PAGE; WEB USABILITY;

AUTOMATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS; WEBSITES;

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 77953484532     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1228175.1228249     Document Type: Conference Paper

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