Online text retrieval via browsing

Cove, J. F.; Walsh, Benjamin

doi:10.1016/0306-4573(88)90075-1

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“…Hildredth (1982) identified three levels of browsing from the goal perspectives of a library user: (1) directed browsing -a structured activity when the desired goal and its location is known; (2) semidirected browsing -a loosely structured activity occurring periodically or repeatedly to discover new material of interest; and (3) undirected browsing -an unstructured and almost random activity where neither goal nor location is known. Cove and Walsh (1988) also proposed three stages of browsing: (1) search browsing, a directed and structured browsing activity with a known goal; (2) general purpose browsing, a browsing activity that occurs on a regular basis and the sources are specified as they likely contain items of interests; and (3) serendipity browsing that is undirected and is random and unstructured. Salomon (1990) found browsing patterns as either casual browsing where the user looks through files casually or goal-directed browsing where the user discovers a goal in the course of browsing.…”

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Integrated Faceted Browser and Direct Search to Enhance Information Retrieval in Text-Based Digital Libraries

Yeh

Yan

2011

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

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Browsing and searching are two prominent paradigms in information retrieval. As digital libraries grow in size and types of collections, their user bases are expanding and include more non-expert users. For those who are not familiar with what the content of a specific text-based digital collection is or its data structure, the browse functionality offers the entry point to explore and obtain an overview. In current digital library implementations, exploratory browsing is sometimes not available as an option. When offered, it is commonly presented as an alphabetical listing of chosen categories depending on the scope of the digital collections. Studies have revealed that information seekers feel fatigued easily and that they are willing to scan at most 200 items of citations in electronic environments. In addition, when users are ready to search with a specific query during the browsing activity, they have to switch to another information space where the search box is separated from the browsing lists. A consequence of such design is that users have to toggle back and forth between browsing and searching states.Within this context, faceted navigation has been discussed and a conceptual model of an integrated faceted browser and direct search utilizing faceted navigation for text-based digital libraries is also proposed in this research. A faceted browser provides users with many entry points at first glance which enable them to receive an overview of the content of the digital libraries effectively and efficiently. A faceted browser integrated with iv direct search ensures the switching between browsing and searching seamlessly. While searching, users are able to work with the recognized structure of the collection right from the browsing overview. An experiment was conducted to test five hypotheses derived from the conceptual model of the integrated faceted browser and direct search for text-based digital libraries. The experiment results show that four hypotheses are supported. For both browsing and searching approaches in information retrieval in a textbased digital library, compared to an alphabetical browser, the faceted browser can significantly improve the effectiveness by (30.8%, p = 0.015) and efficiency by (11.3%, p = 0.001) of information retrieval. Also, compared to un-integrated alphabetical browser with direct search interfaces, the integrated faceted browser with direct search interfaces can significantly improve the effectiveness in information retrieval by (35.7%, p = 0.03) and bring users greater satisfaction (by 34.8%, p < 0.03) with the process.

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Section: What Is Browsing?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated Faceted Browser and Direct Search to Enhance Information Retrieval in Text-Based Digital Libraries

Yeh

Yan

2011

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

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“…Browsing_level is the number of clicks made by a user in a browsing session. Browsing_type indicates browsing aims of users as suggested by Cove and Walsh [1] and Bawden [2]. When the user has a short-term browsing goal, it is assumed that user is looking for a defined piece of information and browsing_type is set to "directed".…”

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“…Bawden [1] categorize browsing into three groups: purposive browsing (looking for a definite piece of information), capricious browsing (randomly examining material without a defined goal) and exploratory browsing (deliberately searching for inspiration). Cove and Walsh [2] also divide browsing into three categories: search browsing (searching for defined information), general purpose browsing (looking for items of interest) and serendipity browsing (random). Based on these definitions, we can say that browsing tends to be used in three broad senses: a purposeful activity (directed), searching for inspiration (semi-directed) and capricious behavior (undirected).…”

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SemWeB: A Semantic Web Browser for Supporting the Browsing of Users Using Semantic and Adaptive Links

Şah

Hall

Roure

2008

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Web browsing is a complex activity and in general, users are not guided during browsing. The aim of this research is to support the browsing of users using semantic and adaptive hyperlinks using Semantic Web technologies and personalization methods. In this paper, we propose a novel Semantic Web browser (SemWeB), which uses a behavior-based and an ontology-driven user modeling architecture. In our approach, semantic links and adaptive hypermedia can be achieved on different websites. In addition, user profiles can be easily updated with semantic metadata coming from the Semantic Web browser.

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“…For example, Catledge and Pitkow (1995) analyzed the average path length and the average number ofvisits to a given site across browsing sessions, finding evidence for a three-category model of navigation behavior proposed by Cove and Walsh (1988). Reed and Geissler (1995) used correlational and nonparametric methods to evaluate the effect of prior computer experience on dependent measures such as the frequency and percentage of linear and nonlinear steps in hypertext navigation.…”

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Listener: A tool for client-side investigation of hypermedia navigation behavior

Ellis

Jankowski

Jasper

et al. 1998

Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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Behavioral researchers have employed hypermedia-based software applications in their experiments for some time. More recently, interest in the World-Wide Webhas developed among researchers in the social sciences, and popular use ofthis new medium continues to grow at an incredible rate. This paper describes Listener, a tool developed to log users' hypermedia and World-Wide Webnavigation behavior using Apple Macintosh computers in a laboratory setting. Listener is able to capture navigation actions through cached documents, overcoming some of the problems associated with analyzing standard web server logs.The growth of widespread use of the World-Wide Web (WWW) in recent years has spurred researchers in humancomputer interaction to focus on usability issues regarding hypermedia (Cockburn & Jones, 1996). Important usability issues arise when one considers how people will navigate through this immense pool of hypermediabased information. To help investigate such usability issues, we developed Listener to collect information about hypermedia navigation activity in a nonobtrusive fashion. Listener was designed for use in a laboratory environment to keep track of the user's step-by-step navigation through hypermedia spaces at the information-request level. Listener currently works on the Macintosh Operating System 7.5.1 (MacOS) with one family of browsers, specifically those produced by Netscape. Rather than being used to focus on the features ofdifferent browsers, however,Listener is designed to evaluate hypermedia navigation using embedded navigation objects (i.e., links). By performing research at the more standard level of the hypermedia itself, results will generalize beyond the context of a particular browser's use to hypermedia navigation behavior in general.Hypermedia navigation is inherently sequential. Sequential data have long been used to investigate humanmachine interaction, and thus other tools have been developed to accomplish this goal. These methods have included both direct external observation and background electronic monitoring. Many methods of direct observation and analysis of human-machine interaction behavior, collectively termed exploratory sequential data analysis (ESDA) by Sanderson and Fisher (1994), have recently grown in popularity with advances in the use of computerized tools such as MacSHAPA

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Online text retrieval via browsing

Cited by 106 publications

References 2 publications

Integrated Faceted Browser and Direct Search to Enhance Information Retrieval in Text-Based Digital Libraries

Integrated Faceted Browser and Direct Search to Enhance Information Retrieval in Text-Based Digital Libraries

SemWeB: A Semantic Web Browser for Supporting the Browsing of Users Using Semantic and Adaptive Links

Listener: A tool for client-side investigation of hypermedia navigation behavior

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