Guided Exploratory Search on the Mobile Web

Günter Neumann, Sven Schmeier

2012

Abstract

We present a mobile touchable application for guided exploration of web content and online topic graph extraction that has been successfully implemented on a tablet, i.e. an Apple iPad, and on a mobile device/phone, i.e. Apple iPhone or iPod. Starting from a user’s search query a set of web snippets is collected by a standard search engine in a first step. After that the snippets are collected into one document from which the topic graph is computed. This topic graph is presented to the user in different touchable and interactive graphical representations depending on the screensize of the mobile device. However due to possible semantic ambiguities in the search queries the snippets may cover different thematic areas and so the topic graph may contain associated topics for different semantic entities of the original query. This may lead the user to wrong directions while exploring the solution space. Hence we present our approach for an interactive disambiguation of the search query and so we provide assistance for the users towards a guided exploratory search.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Neumann G. and Schmeier S. (2012). Guided Exploratory Search on the Mobile Web . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-29-7, pages 65-74. DOI: 10.5220/0004135900650074

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir12,
author={Günter Neumann and Sven Schmeier},
title={Guided Exploratory Search on the Mobile Web},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={65-74},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004135900650074},
isbn={978-989-8565-29-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2012)
TI - Guided Exploratory Search on the Mobile Web
SN - 978-989-8565-29-7
AU - Neumann G.
AU - Schmeier S.
PY - 2012
SP - 65
EP - 74
DO - 10.5220/0004135900650074