Visualization for Information Retrieval

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Zhang, Jin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: The Information Retrieval Series, 23
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information storage and retrieval.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computer Science.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).

The amount of digitized information available on the Internet, in digital libraries, and other forms of information systems grows at an exponential rate, while becoming more complex and more dynamic. As a consequence, information organization, information retrieval and the presentation of retrieval...

Table of Contents:

• Information Retrieval and Visualization
• Information Retrieval Preliminaries
• Visualization Models for Multiple Reference Points
• Euclidean Spatial Characteristic Based Visualization Models
• Kohonen Self-Organizing Map–An Artificial Neural Network
• Pathfinder Associative Network
• Multidimensional Scaling
• Internet Information Visualization
• Ambiguity in Information Visualization
• The Implication of Metaphors in Information Visualization
• Benchmarks and Evaluation Criteria for Information Retrieval Visualization
• Afterthoughts.