Josiane Mothe
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse,
118 Rte de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse CEDEX, France.
Taoufiq Dkaki
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse,
118 Rte de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse CEDEX, France.
Complementary approaches can be used to improve information retrieval efficiency. One of these approaches consists in focusing on the system inner processes used (e.g. document indexing, query-document similarity computing,...). An other approach consists in improving the user-system interaction. That requires powerful interface design. In this poster we propose an interactive multidimensional document visualization. The selected documents (selected by either a search or a filtering process) are studied according to several of their features. Those features are either extracted using an indexing type process (the result is a set of phrases) or using information extraction mechanisms (to extract for example the author names, publication dates,...). Those elements are crossed in order to discover the strong links that exist between them. Discovered relationships are then displayed on a 4-dimensional graphical view. This interface allows the user to graphically select the elements he is most interested in and to automatically construct new filters that will change interactively the set of the displayed documents.
SIGIR'98