The 26th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Idea Navigation: Structured Browsing for Unstructured Text

author: Vladimir Zelevinsky, Endeca Technologies
coauthor: Robin Stewart, Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
published: May 29, 2008, recorded: April 2008, views: 218

Slides

Slides
0:00	Idea Navigation - Structured Browsing for Unstructured Text
0:12	Why?
0:17	Search
0:51	Q: What did Hillary Clinton propose in October 2000?
1:04	A: let's search!
2:34	What if we could search for:
3:37	Not keywords - Ideas
3:45	How?
3:50	How do we obtain ideas from data?
5:29	Hierarchy generation:
6:40	What?
6:47	Idea Navigator (1)
7:23	Idea Navigator (2)
7:49	Idea Navigator (3)
8:12	Idea Navigator (4)
8:21	Idea Navigator (5)
8:56	User study
9:30	Result: Users progressively abandoned the search box
10:40	Future work
11:43	Contributions
15:56	- Questions
17:23	- Questions

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Description

Don’t search for keywords! Search for ideas! Our system extracts subject-verb-object triples from unstructured text, groups them into hierarchies, and allows iterative refinement to findexactly what you want.