Paper Info
Title
Genre based Navigation on the Web
Abstract
We report on our ongoing study of using the genre of Web pages to facilitate information exploration. By genre, we mean socially recognized regularities of form and purpose in documents (e.g., a letter, a memo, a research paper). Our study had three phases. First, through a user study, we identified genres which most/least frequently meet searchers' information needs. We found that certain genres are better suited for certain types of needs. We identified five (5) major groups of document genres that might be used in an interactive search tool that would allow genre-based navigation. We tried to balance the following dual objectives: 1) each group should be recognizable by a computer algorithm as easily as possible 2) each group has a better chance of satisfying particular types of information needs. Finally, we developed a novel user interface for a web searching that allows genre-based navigation through three major functionalities: 1) limiting search to specified genres 2) visualizing the hierarchy of genres discovered in the search results and 3) accepting user feedback on the relevancy of the specified genres.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1109/HICSS.2001.926478
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
novel user interface,ongoing study,information exploration,interactive search tool,information need,user study,genre-based navigation,specified genre,user feedback,search result,human factors,information needs,information retrieval,satisfiability,search engines,human computer interaction,user interfaces,world wide web,user interface,web pages,visualization,genre
World Wide Web,Information needs,Information retrieval,Web page,Visualization,Computer science,Information seeking,Publishing,User interface,Hierarchy,The Internet
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-0981-9
47
2.71
References 
Authors
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
D. Roussinov1553.60
Crowston, K.219037.38
M. Nilan3472.71
B. Kwasnik4472.71
J. Cai5472.71
X. Liu611722.65