Document Type
Article
Date
2001
Embargo Period
4-24-2012
Keywords
Search engines, genre, information seeking, relevancy
Disciplines
Library and Information Science
Description/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 genrebased 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.
Recommended Citation
Roussinov, D., Crowston, K., Nilan, M., Kwasnik, B., Cai, J. & Liu, X., Genre Based Navigation on the Web, proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-34). January 4-7, 2001, Island of Maui.
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Additional Information
Additional author includes: Xiaoyong Liu, Syracuse University