Exploratory search framework for Web data sources

VLDB Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 641-663

  Bozzon, Alessandro ^a   Brambilla, Marco ^a   Ceri, Stefano ^a   Mazza, Davide ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Design; Experimentation; Exploratory search; Performance; Search; Structured Web data; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTATION; EXPLORATORY SEARCH; PERFORMANCE; SEARCH; STRUCTURED WEB DATUM;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DESIGN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS; VISUAL LANGUAGES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84884592018     PISSN: 10668888     EISSN: 0949877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00778-013-0326-x     Document Type: Article

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