Evaluating a Task-specific Information Retrieval Interface Export

@misc{citeulike:3781607, abstract = {We present an evaluation of an information retrieval system designed for the 1997 TREC-6 Interactive Track; that is, Aspect Oriented Retrieval, or finding documents that cover all aspects of relevance to a given topic. Our system includes a basic search system, a task-specific \"aspect window\", and a 3-D visualization of document and aspect relationships. We compare two versions of our system against ZPRISE, a baseline system provided by NIST. A study of 20 searchers shows significant differences between two classes of searchers, and supports several hypotheses about the design of an aspect oriented system. An interesting result is a likely correlation between structural visualization ability and facility with a 3-D visualization.}, citeulike-article-id = {3781607}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.21.5689}, keywords = {aspect, evaluation, interactive, ir}, posted-at = {2008-12-12 11:45:03}, priority = {2}, title = {Evaluating a Task-specific Information Retrieval Interface}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.21.5689}, year = {1997} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:3781607 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3781607 N2 - We present an evaluation of an information retrieval system designed for the 1997 TREC-6 Interactive Track; that is, Aspect Oriented Retrieval, or finding documents that cover all aspects of relevance to a given topic. Our system includes a basic search system, a task-specific "aspect window", and a 3-D visualization of document and aspect relationships. We compare two versions of our system against ZPRISE, a baseline system provided by NIST. A study of 20 searchers shows significant differences between two classes of searchers, and supports several hypotheses about the design of an aspect oriented system. An interesting result is a likely correlation between structural visualization ability and facility with a 3-D visualization. TI - Evaluating a Task-specific Information Retrieval Interface KW - aspect KW - evaluation KW - interactive KW - ir PY - 1997/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.21.5689 ER -