2015/02/06 by Peter Mutschke, Mutschke, Peter, Karima Haddou ou Moussa +1
Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Information Retrieval (cs.IR) #cs.IR
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1502.01965
URL workshop proceedings: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1311/
arxiv created 2015/02/06 · arxiv updated 2015/02/09
The ability to browse an information space in a structured way by exploiting similarities and dissimilarities between information objects is crucial for knowledge discovery. Knowledge maps use visualizations to gain insights into the structure of large-scale information spaces, but are still far away from being applicable for searching. The paper proposes a use case for enhancing search term recommendations by heat map visualizations of co-word relation-ships taken from indexing vocabulary. By contrasting areas of different "heat" the user is enabled to indicate mainstream areas of the field in question more easily.