1996
@article{CaR1996,
vgclass = {refpap},
author = {Claudio Carpineto and Giovanni Romano},
title = {Information retrieval through hybrid navigation of lattice
representations},
journal = {International Journal of Human-Computer Studies},
volume = {45},
number = {5},
pages = {553--578},
month = {November},
year = {1996},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/ijhc.1996.0067},
abstract = {In this paper we present a comprehensive approach to
automatic organization and hybrid navigation of text databases. An
organizing stage first builds a particular lattice representation of
the data, through text indexing followed by lattice clustering of the
indexed texts. The lattice representation, then, supports the
navigation stage of the system, a visual retrieval interface that
combines three main retrieval strategies: browsing, querying, and
bounding. Browsing and querying are used to search the retrieval space,
bounding is used to restrict it based on the information that users
have, or get during their interaction with the system. We show that
such a hybrid paradigm permits high flexibility in trading off
information exploration and retrieval and, in addiiton, has good
retrieval performance. We compared information retrieval using
lattice-based hybrid navigation with conventional Boolean querying. The
results of an experiment conducted on two medium-sized bibliographic
databases showed that the performance of lattice retrieval was
comparable to or better than Boolean retrieval.},
}