Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted Search Theory, Practice, and Experience /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sacco, Giovanni Maria. (Editor), Tzitzikas, Yannis. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: The Information Retrieval Series, 25
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information storage and retrieval systems.; Information systems.; Computer Science.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet).
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02359-0

Current access paradigms for the Web, i.e., direct access via search engines or database queries and navigational access via static taxonomies, have recently been criticized because they are too rigid or simplistic to effectively cope with a large number of practical search applications. A third par...

Table of Contents:

• 1) The Model
• 2) Faceted Taxonomy-Based Sources
• 3) Comparison with Other Techniques
• 4) User Interface Design
• 5) Extensions to the Model
• 6) Engineering Taxonomy-Based Sources
• 7) Taxonomy Design
• 8) System Implementation
• 9) Applications and Experiences
• 10) Conclusions.