Internet browsing and searching: User evaluations of category map and concept space techniques

✍ Scribed by Chen, Hsinchun ;Houston, Andrea L. ;Sewell, Robin R. ;Schatz, Bruce R.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 885 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(19980515)49:7<582::aid-asi2>3.0.co;2-x

✦ Synopsis

pages indicated that there was limited overlap between The Internet provides an exceptional testbed for develthe homepages retrieved by the subject-suggested and oping algorithms that can improve browsing and searchthesaurus-suggested terms. Since the retrieved homeing large information spaces. Browsing and searching pages for the most part were different, this suggests that tasks are susceptible to problems of information overa user can enhance a keyword-based search by using load and vocabulary differences. Much of the current an automatically generated concept space. Subjects esresearch is aimed at the development and refinement of pecially liked the level of control that they could exert algorithms to improve browsing and searching by adover the search, and the fact that the terms suggested dressing these problems. Our research was focused on by the thesaurus were ''real'' (i.e., originating in the discovering whether two of the algorithms our research homepages) and therefore guaranteed to have retrieval group has developed, a Kohonen algorithm category success. map for browsing, and an automatically generated concept space algorithm for searching, can help improve browsing and/or searching the Internet. Our results indicate that a Kohonen self-organizing map (SOM)-based