ImageSieve: Exploratory search of museum archives with named entity-based faceted browsing

Over the last few years, faceted search emerged as an attractive alternative to the traditional "text box" search and has become one of the standard ways of interaction on many e-commerce sites. However, these applications of faceted search are limited to domains where the objects of interests have already been classified along several independent dimensions, such as price, year, or brand. While automatic approaches to generate faceted search interfaces were proposed, it is not yet clear to what extent the automatically-produced interfaces will be useful to real users, and whether their quality can match or surpass their manually-produced predecessors. The goal of this paper is to introduce an exploratory search interface called ImageSieve, which shares many features with traditional faceted browsing, but can function without the use of traditional faceted metadata. ImageSieve uses automatically extracted and classified named entities, which play important roles in many domains (such as news collections, image archives, etc.). We describe one specific application of ImageSieve for image search. Here, named entities extracted from the descriptions of the retrieved images are used to organize a faceted browsing interface, which then helps users to make sense of and further explore the retrieved images. The results of a user study of ImageSieve demonstrate that a faceted search system based on named entities can help users explore large collections and find relevant information more effectively

A Descriptive Study of the Functional Components of Browsing.

The paper describes a descriptive study of the functional components of browsing, which is viewed as the strategic and adaptive technique that people use to search, scan, navigate through, skim, sample, and explore information systems. Data on browsing is collected from thirty participants -- ten each in three browsing formats: print, command-driven computer version, and hypertext window-environment version. Data collection is by means of several techniques: the collection of thinking-out-loud, task-concurrent protocols; open-question interviews during the task; observation; and video and sound recording. The aim of analysis is to describe functions of browsing such as: orientation, place-marking, transition, comparison, identification, and resolution of anomalies, and the relationships among these functions

A Most Surprising Fern: Serendipity and Browsing in Botanical Search

This article is a case study of botanical field work in the eastern United States in the early twentieth century. These cases will be analyzed as instances of browsing and serendipity. Browsing and serendipity have a rich literature in information science and this article will draw on this literature in order to better understand serendipity in botany. This article will show how botanical localities support browsing and serendipity for the botanists who search them. This article will also show how botanical institutions and botanists interface with localities in order to further support browsing and serendipity. As a whole this article will present a new way of understanding botanical practice and the role of serendipity within it

Encountering on the road to Serendip? Browsing in new information environments

Considers the continuing relevance of the ideas of browsing, serendipity, information encountering, and literature discovery in a digital information environment

Desarrollo de una herramienta para el an??lisis y representaci??n sem??ntica de colecciones documentales a trav??s del factor TF-IDF

Se describe el desarrollo y de una aplicaci??n para el an??lisis sem??ntico de una colecci??n documental. La herramienta permite interactuar con otros sistemas de gesti??n documental que aporten una organizaci??n del conocimiento espec??fica, a partir de los t??rminos de indexaci??n de sus documentos y definiendo de forma automatizada un espacio vectorial en funci??n de los pesos sem??nticos de cada t??rmino evaluado a partir del factor TF-IDF. Como resultado a la consulta del usuario se construye un gr??fico hipertextual, el que representa el nivel de presencia de cada concepto en una o varias colecciones, y facilitando la navegaci??n de las bases de datos vinculadas y el acceso a sus objetos almacenados. La aplicaci??n puede interactuar con cualquier sistema que permita la interoperabilidad, y pueda organizar los datos en correlaci??n con los criterios establecidos en el complemento presentado. En este caso particular, la experiencia se trabaj?? bajo el sistema para repositorios DSpace

Die Rolle des Internets als Informationsbeschaffungsmedium in Banken

Subject of the study presented in this paper is the analysis of the relevance of the Internet as an information source in German banks. The results show, that today the Internet is indeed the most important information source for many types of information used in the business processes of banks. Especially sources free of charge are not only used widely, they are moreover evaluated very high in quality. It is argued, that attitude and behavior are mainly influenced by psychological and sociological factors. Finally, it is stated, that due to the loss of control over parts of the input factors it is necessary for the banks to actively incorporate the Internet into the quality management processes. --Information Search Behavior,Internet,Banks,Psychology,Sociology