Modern Information Retrieval Chapter 10: User Interfaces and Visualization

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3. Query Term Hits Between Documents

retrieval results!query terms between documents

Other visualization ideas have been developed to show a different kind of information about the relationship between query terms and retrieved documents. Rather than showing how query terms appear within individual documents, as is done in KWIC interfaces and TileBars, these systems display an overview or summary of the retrieved documents according to which subset of query terms they contain. The following subsections describe variations on this idea.

  

Figure: A sketch of the InfoCrystal retrieval results display [#!spoerri93!#].