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Interactive Intent Modeling: Information Discovery Beyond Search

posted by martyb on Wednesday February 04 2015, @11:17PM   
from the seek-and-ye-shall-find dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Researchers at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT have developed a new search engine that outperforms current ones, and helps people to do searches more efficiently.

The SciNet search engine is different because it changes internet searches into recognition tasks, by showing keywords related to the user’s search in topic radar. People using SciNet can get relevant and diverse search results faster, especially when they do not know exactly what they are looking for or how to formulate a query to find it.

Once initially queried, SciNet displays a range of keywords and topics in a topic radar. With the help of the directions on the radar, the engine displays how these topics are related to each other. The relevance of each keyword is displayed as its distance from the centre point of the radar — those more closely related are nearer to the centre, and those less relevant are farther away. The search engine also offers alternatives that are connected with the topic, but which the user might not have thought of querying. By moving words around the topic radar, users specify what information is most useful for them.

http://www.aalto.fi/en/current/news/2015-01-27/

[Paper]: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/1/181621-interactive-intent-modeling/fulltext

• Re:Legendary, I tell yea!Re:Legendary, I tell yea! (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 05 2015, @01:51AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 05 2015, @01:51AM (#141378)

  > So legendary that I could not find any demo on the net, only some screenshots in TFA.

  http://hand.hiit.fi/scinet/scinet3/ [hand.hiit.fi]

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• Re:Legendary, I tell yea!Re:Legendary, I tell yea! (Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Thursday February 05 2015, @01:58AM

  by c0lo (156) on Thursday February 05 2015, @01:58AM (#141382) Journal

  I almost modded it +Informative. Until I got "Auth Required".
  (for extra informative points, please do tell the guest account).

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  • Re:Legendary, I tell yea!Re:Legendary, I tell yea! (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 05 2015, @02:28AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 05 2015, @02:28AM (#141390)

    Dunno, I use noscript it didn't ask.

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    • Re:Legendary, I tell yea!Re:Legendary, I tell yea! (Score: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Thursday February 05 2015, @08:46AM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday February 05 2015, @08:46AM (#141442) Journal

      It not only uses JavaScript, it also uses ajax.googleapis.com (and d3js.org — anyone knows more about that one?).

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      • Re:Legendary, I tell yea!(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 05 2015, @03:33PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 05 2015, @03:33PM (#141528)

        D3.js is a very nice graphing library. Probably being used to make the radar plot.

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• Re:Legendary, I tell yea!(Score: 2) by bucc5062 on Thursday February 05 2015, @08:35PM

  by bucc5062 (699) on Thursday February 05 2015, @08:35PM (#141635)

  What's with the login panel? Pretty hard to even compare when you can't even access it. Google would have been a hoot back in the day if they required registration to use their search tool.

  I'll pass till the serfs can give it a spin.

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