Automatic text processing: the transformation, analysis, and retrieval of information by computer
Automatic text processing: the transformation, analysis, and retrieval of information by computer
Full-text information retrieval: further analysis and clarification
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Bead: explorations in information visualization
SIGIR '92 Proceedings of the 15th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The pragmatics of information retrieval experimentation, revisited
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on evaluation issues in information retrieval
LyberWorld—a visualization user interface supporting fulltext retrieval
SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
TileBars: visualization of term distribution information in full text information access
CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Evaluating user interfaces to information retrieval systems: a case study on user support
SIGIR '96 Proceedings of the 19th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Information retrieval through hybrid navigation of lattice representations
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Effectiveness of a graphical display of retrieval results
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Lexical navigation: visually prompted query expansion and refinement
DL '97 Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Digital libraries
Advantages of query biased summaries in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Web document clustering: a feasibility demonstration
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Partial coordination. I. The best of pre-coordination and post-coordination
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Information Retrieval
Human-Computer Interaction
ECDL '02 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Qualitative Evaluation of Thesaurus-Based Retrieval
ECDL '02 Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
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We present an approach to increasing the effectiveness of ranked-output retrieval systems that relies on graphical display and user manipulation of "views" of retrieval results, where a view is the subset of retrieved documents that contain a specified subset of query terms. This approach has been implemented in a system named VIEWER (VIEwing WEb Results), acting as an interface to available search engines. An experimental evaluation of the performance of VIEWER in contrast to AltaVista is the major focus of the paper. We first report the results of an experiment on single, short query searches where VIEWER, used as an interactive ranking system, markedly outperformed AltaVista. We then concentrate on a more realistic searching scenario, involving free query formulation, unconstrained selection of retrieval results, and possibility of query reformulation. We report the results of an experiment where the use of VIEWER, compared to AltaVista, seemed to shift the user effort from inspection to evaluation of results, increasing retrieval effectiveness and user satisfaction. In particular, we found that the VIEWER users retrieved half as many nonrelevant documents as the AltaVista users while retrieving a comparable number of relevant documents.