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Visualizing Concept Based Text Searches

Visualizing Concept Based Text Searches. Zack Jacobson (zack.jacobson@cac.gc.ca). Ben Houston (ben.houston@cac.gc.ca). Concept Based Queries. User gives a query as keywords or in the form of a question. Search engine (Inquizit) identifies concepts related to the query.

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Visualizing Concept Based Text Searches

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  1. Visualizing Concept Based Text Searches Zack Jacobson (zack.jacobson@cac.gc.ca) Ben Houston (ben.houston@cac.gc.ca)

  2. Concept Based Queries • User gives a query as keywords or in the form of a question. • Search engine (Inquizit) identifies concepts related to the query. • For each concept relevant portions of documents are identified.

  3. An Example... 1) The Query: What color is the sky? 2) The Concepts: Color, Hue, Sky, Atmosphere 3) The Extracts and Documents: “the sky is blue.” Questions Children Ask “the bluish hue results from the refraction of light in the upper atmosphere” Introduction to Physics

  4. Visualizing Relations Concepts. Extracts -- relates the Concepts to the Documents. Documents. sky blue Intro to Physics Questions Children Ask

  5. 3D Layout Mechanism - 1 Concepts 3 fixed planes Extracts Documents

  6. 3D Layout Mechanism - 2 Upside-down Cone Trees

  7. 3D Layout Mechanism - 3 Simulated Annealing Model (or “Magnets & Elastics” ) attraction repulsion

  8. Densely Connected Example coloring indicating connectivity coloring indicating components

  9. More Representative Example top view clustered Layouts circular layouts 45o view

  10. Web Browser Integration view an extract view document

  11. Another find product from... Consulting & Audits Canada(http://www.cac.gc.ca) Zack Jacobson -- Cognitive Psychologist Ph.D. email: zack.jacobson@cac.g.ca Ben Houston -- Cognitive Science Undergraduate email: ben.houston@cac.gc.ca www: http://chat.carleton.ca/~bhouston

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