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Pie Charts for Visualizing Query Term Frequency in Search Results

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Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology (ICADL 2002)

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Search engine queries are normally brief but often return unmanageably long results, with which users struggle to determine document quality and relevance. In recent years, many studies have enhanced search results with metadata displayed as visual cues. Their success in helping users make faster and more accurate document judgments has been uneven, reflecting the wide range of information needs and document selection strategies of users, and also the relative effectiveness of different visualization forms. We identify the frequency with which query terms are found in a document as a straightforward and effective way for users to see the relationship between their query and the search results. In our prototype, we display these frequencies using simple pie charts. Despite performance limitations, evaluation with 101 users has been promising and suggests future developments.

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  1. School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, BT37 0QB, Co. Antrim, UK

    Terry Anderson

  2. Computer Engineering and Computer Science Dept., University of Missouri-Columbia, 201 Engineering Building West, 65211, Columbia, MO, USA

    Ali Hussam, Bill Plummer & Nathan Jacobs

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  1. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Ee- Peng Lim , Schubert Foo  & Chris Khoo ,  & 

  2. University of Arizona, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  3. Virginia Tech, USA

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  4. University of Mysore, Mysore

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  5. IEI-CNR, Italy

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Anderson, T., Hussam, A., Plummer, B., Jacobs, N. (2002). Pie Charts for Visualizing Query Term Frequency in Search Results. In: Lim, E.P., et al. Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology. ICADL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2555. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36227-4_52

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