ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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mSpace: improving information access to multimedia domains with multimodal exploratory search
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VLDB '02 Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Very Large Data Bases
WSDM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
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Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Dynamic faceted search for discovery-driven analysis
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Minimum-effort driven dynamic faceted search in structured databases
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Semantic Search --- Using Graph-Structured Semantic Models for Supporting the Search Process
ICCS '09 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Conceptual Structures: Conceptual Structures: Leveraging Semantic Technologies
DBpedia - A crystallization point for the Web of Data
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
MuseumFinland-Finnish museums on the semantic web
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
/facet: a browser for heterogeneous semantic web repositories
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
Extending faceted navigation for RDF data
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
Facet graphs: complex semantic querying made easy
ESWC'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on The Semantic Web: research and Applications - Volume Part I
ICCCI'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computational Collective Intelligence: technologies and applications - Volume Part II
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Faceted search enables users to browse and discover relevant items from a large collection such as the Web of data. Existing faceted search solutions assume a precise information need, and thus optimise relevance, interestingness, and costs of fulfilling an information need. In this paper, we propose a complementary solution. Instead of assuming a search scenario (i.e., a user has a precise information need), our solution targets a browsing scenario (i.e., a user has a fuzzy need). We aimto support users in exploring an unknown collection of items, thereby allowing them to discover new or unfamiliar items of interest. Our approach comprises mechanisms for grouping facets and facet values and facet ranking. Via a task-based evaluation, we demonstrate that the proposed solution enables more effective browsing compared to the state-of-the-art, given fuzzy information needs.