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The following is a recent post from http://nooface.com , a site dedicated
to the search for the post PC interface. There are many interesting links
to be found here, and new ones daily, but the following especially caught
my attention. The paper proposes is that visualization can resolve
problems with searches failing because of the differences in jargon used in
different disciplines.
Actually, I was more impressed with the abstract then the paper
itself. Still, I think that this link is a good addition to the posts
referenced at the top of the page. (I found them by doing searches for
"vocabulary" and "thesaurus". Luckily, I remembered the posts I was
looking for mentioned those keywords, however I am sure that there is a lot
more on the topic that I've missed).
Here is the link:
http://nooface.com/articles/01/11/06/1712235.shtml
"Thanks to continuously dropping storage costs and web access, users are
becoming exposed to ever-increasing amounts of data, which is putting
pressure on the traditional information retrieval model that is usually
based on data retrieval by keyword search. The problem is that as the
amount of searchable data soars, the retrieval process can become
inefficient if the user's vocabulary does not match the index vocabulary
used by the search process, or the user can not easily constrain a search
path based on context (for an illustration of the importance of context,
see this article). This paper makes the case that the context problem can
be overcome through data visualization, which provides an additional
dimension for the user to specify their desired context. It then provides a
brief introduction to the fundamentals of data visualization, followed by
examples of some leading visualization tools."
--Alex
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