In: Journal of information science, 2012, vol. 38, no. 4, p. 383-398
Interactive Topic Detection and Tracking (iTDT) refers to the TDT works which focus on user interaction, user evaluation and user interfaces aspects. This article investigates and identifies elements of the design of an interface that aims to facilitate journalists performing TDT tasks such as tracking and detection. It presents an (iTDT) interface called Interactive Event Tracking (iEvent),...
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In: Lecture notes in computer science, 2010, vol. 5993, p. 649-652
User-generated short documents assume an important role in online communication due to the established utilization of social networks and real- time text messaging on the Internet. In this paper we compare the statistics of different online user-generated datasets and traditional TREC collections, investigating their similarities and dferences. Our results support the applicability of...
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In: International journal on digital libraries, 2006, vol. 6, no. 2, p. 192-209
We present the results and the lessons learned from two separate and independent studies into the design, development, and evaluation of electronic books for information access: the Visual Book and the Hyper-TextBook. The Visual Book explored the importance of the visual component of the book metaphor in the production of “good” electronic books for referencing. The Hyper-TextBook...
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In: Journal of information science, 2007, vol. 33, no. 1, p. 77-101
Context has long been considered very useful to help the user assess the actual relevance of a document. In Web searching, context can help assess the relevance of a Web page by showing how the page is related to other pages in the same Web site, for example. Such information is very difficult to convey and visualise in a user friendly way. In this paper we present the design, implementation and...
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