September 2011
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Keyword Search, Associative Browsing and Faceted...
Keyword Search, Associative Browsing and Faceted Navigation are three major techniques of information access. Google provide search, browsing (find-similar links) and navigation (filtering by time and types), and there exists many domain-specific collections of structured data (e.g., Amazon, IMDB and Yelp!) which supports all three methods in different forms. In this post, I’ll compare these...
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A Framework for Exploratory Search
I recently read a paper from FXPAL on a new framework and system of exploratory search. They characterize exploratory search as follows:
Exploratory search is often characterized by an evolving information need and the likelihood that the information sought is distributed across multiple documents. Thus the goal of the search process is not to formulate the perfect query or to find the ideal...
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