Recent trends in hierarchic document clustering: a critical review
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
To see, or not to see— is That the query?
SIGIR '91 Proceedings of the 14th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Rich interaction in the digital library
Communications of the ACM
Information seeking in electronic environments
Information seeking in electronic environments
Evaluation of evaluation in information retrieval
SIGIR '95 Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The retrieval effectiveness of five clustering algorithms as a function of indexing exhaustivity
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Reexamining the cluster hypothesis: scatter/gather on retrieval results
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Performance standards and evaluations in IR test collections: cluster-based retrieval models
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The efficiency of inverted index and cluster searches
Proceedings of the 9th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The potential and actual effectiveness of interactive query expansion
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
An informal information-seeking environment
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue on current research in human-computer interaction
Informia: a mediator for integrated access to heterogeneous information sources
Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Information and knowledge management
Web document clustering: a feasibility demonstration
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Information Retrieval
WebCluster, a tool for mediated information access (demonstration abstract)
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Document Clustering and Language Models for System-Mediated Information Access
ECDL '01 Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Topic modeling for mediated access to very large document collections
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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This paper addresses the problem of accessing very large heterogeneous document collections by proposing a new approach to using clustering for information retrieval: mediated access through a clustered collection. In what is actually an information access environment, the user can explore a relatively small, well structured, pre-clustered collection covering a particular subject domain, in order to understand the concepts encompassed and to clarify and refine his/her information need. The user can ostensively indicate clusters and documents of interest and be assisted in formulating a query, based on which a search can be done on a large, non-structured collection. Finally, the original cluster structure is the basis for visualisation tools that allow the user to explore search results. WebCluster, the system implementing these ideas, is presented, together with results of an initial formative experiment and plans for future experiments.