Conference Paper: A new visual search interface for web browsing

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Title	A new visual search interface for web browsing
Authors	Xu, S2 3 Jin, T1 Lau, FCM1
Keywords	Document Summarization Online Browsing And Navigation Visual Search Interface Web Search
Issue Date	2009
Citation	Proceedings Of The 2Nd Acm International Conference On Web Search And Data Mining, Wsdm'09, 2009, p. 152-161 [How to Cite?] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1498759.1498821
Abstract	We introduce a new visual search interface for search engines. The interface is a user-friendly and informative graphical front-end for organizing and presenting search results in the form of topic groups. Such a semantics-oriented search result presentation is in contrast with conventional search interfaces which present search results according to the physical structures of the information. Given a user query, our interface first retrieves relevant online materials via a third-party search engine. And then we analyze the semantics of search results to detect latent topics in the result set. Once the topics are detected, we map the search result pages into topic clusters. According to the topic clustering result, we divide the available screen space for our visual interface into multiple topic displaying regions, one for each topic. For each topic's displaying region, we summarize the information contained in the search results under the corresponding topic so that only key messages will be displayed. With this new visual search interface, users are conveyed the key information in the search results expediently. With the key information, users can navigate to the final, desired results with less effort and time than conventional searching. Supplementary materials for this paper are available at http://www.cs.hku.hk/~songhua/visualsearch/. Copyright 2009 ACM.
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1498759.1498821
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dc.contributor.author	Xu, S
dc.contributor.author	Jin, T
dc.contributor.author	Lau, FCM
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dc.date.available	2012-06-26T06:31:25Z
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dc.description.abstract	We introduce a new visual search interface for search engines. The interface is a user-friendly and informative graphical front-end for organizing and presenting search results in the form of topic groups. Such a semantics-oriented search result presentation is in contrast with conventional search interfaces which present search results according to the physical structures of the information. Given a user query, our interface first retrieves relevant online materials via a third-party search engine. And then we analyze the semantics of search results to detect latent topics in the result set. Once the topics are detected, we map the search result pages into topic clusters. According to the topic clustering result, we divide the available screen space for our visual interface into multiple topic displaying regions, one for each topic. For each topic's displaying region, we summarize the information contained in the search results under the corresponding topic so that only key messages will be displayed. With this new visual search interface, users are conveyed the key information in the search results expediently. With the key information, users can navigate to the final, desired results with less effort and time than conventional searching. Supplementary materials for this paper are available at http://www.cs.hku.hk/~songhua/visualsearch/. Copyright 2009 ACM.
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dc.identifier.citation	Proceedings Of The 2Nd Acm International Conference On Web Search And Data Mining, Wsdm'09, 2009, p. 152-161 [How to Cite?] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1498759.1498821
dc.identifier.citeulike	4195131
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1498759.1498821
dc.identifier.epage	161
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10722/151951
dc.language	eng
dc.relation.ispartof	Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM'09
dc.relation.references	References in Scopus
dc.subject	Document Summarization
dc.subject	Online Browsing And Navigation
dc.subject	Visual Search Interface
dc.subject	Web Search
dc.title	A new visual search interface for web browsing
dc.type	Conference_Paper

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