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Improving Semantic Search via Integrated Personalized Faceted and Visual Graph Navigation. Michal Tvarožek, Michal Barla, György Frivolt, Marek Tom ša , Mária Bieliková. { Tvarozek,barla,frivolt,tomsa,bielik } [at] fiit.stuba.sk Institute of Informatics and Software Engineering
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Improving Semantic Search via Integrated Personalized Faceted and Visual Graph Navigation Michal Tvarožek, Michal Barla,György Frivolt, Marek Tomša, Mária Bieliková {Tvarozek,barla,frivolt,tomsa,bielik} [at] fiit.stuba.sk Institute of Informatics and Software Engineering Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
Motivation • Semantic Web applications • Search and navigation related issues • Difficult construction of queries and ambiguity • Open ended and exploratory tasks • Complex and hard to use search interfaces • Insufficiency of classical faceted browsers • Suitability of visual approaches SOFSEM 2008, High Tatras, Slovakia
Personalized faceted and visual browsing SOFSEM 2008, High Tatras, Slovakia
Example: Faceted browser SOFSEM 2008, High Tatras, Slovakia
Faceted browsing challenges • Managing information overload • Too many facets (complex information spaces) • Too many restrictions (large information spaces) • Still too many search results • Hard to understand instance details • Advanced exploratory tasks SOFSEM 2008, High Tatras, Slovakia
Faceted browser enhancements SOFSEM 2008, High Tatras, Slovakia
Facet adaptation, annotation, recommendation SOFSEM 2008, High Tatras, Slovakia
Faceted browser enhancements SMAP 2007
Example: Visual navigation SOFSEM 2008, High Tatras, Slovakia
Navigating search results • Hierarchical clusters • Cluster size annotation • Similarity annotation • Annotations • Property summarization • Most frequent properties SOFSEM 2008, High Tatras, Slovakia
Navigating instance neighborhoods SOFSEM 2008, High Tatras, Slovakia
Navigating instance properties SOFSEM 2008, High Tatras, Slovakia
Relevance and user models • Automatic acquisition from user behavior • User characteristics (long-term and short-term) • In-session behavior • Global trends and popularity • Similar users and social relations SOFSEM 2008, High Tatras, Slovakia
Conclusions (1) • Evaluation with multiple domain ontologies • Scientific publications (mapekus.fiit.stuba.sk) • Digital photographs • Prototype implementation • Factic + ClusterNavigator/Clusterer • Java, Sesame, OWL + Prefuse, MySQL SOFSEM 2008, High Tatras, Slovakia
Conclusions (2) • Integrated faceted and visual navigation • Personalization improves user experience • Future work • Handling multiple/multi-domain ontologies • Leveraging social networks for clustering, navigation and visualization SOFSEM 2008, High Tatras, Slovakia
mapekus.fiit.stuba.sk SOFSEM 2008, High Tatras, Slovakia