PEx-WEB: Content-based visualization of web search results

  • Fernando V. Paulovich
  • , Roberto Pinho
  • , Charl P. Botha
  • , Anton Heijs
  • , Rosane Minghim

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Abstract

The efficacy of search engines has expanded the uses for the information available on the Web. An increasing number of applications make use of the WWW as a primary source of information. The usefulness of such applications is, however, impaired by the current styles of display of the web search results. This paper presents a system that adapts two techniques to map and explore web results visually in order to find relevant patterns and relationships amongst the resulting documents. The first technique creates a visual map of the search results using a contentbased multidimensional projection. The second techniques is capable of identifying, labeling and displaying topics within sub-groups of documents on the map. The system (The Projection explorer for the WWW, or PEx-Web) implements these techniques and various additional tools as means to make better use of web search results for exploratory applications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 12th International Conference Information Visualisation, IV08
Pages208-214
Number of pages7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
Event12th International Conference Information Visualisation, IV08 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 9 Jul 200811 Jul 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation
ISSN (Print)1093-9547

Conference

Conference12th International Conference Information Visualisation, IV08
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period9/07/0811/07/08

Keywords

  • Interactive information retrieval
  • Text data mining
  • Visualization and knowledge discovery
  • Visualization of textual information
  • Web data visualization

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