Publication
Strategies for Guided Exploratory Search on the Mobile Web
Günter Neumann; Sven Schmeier
In: INSTINCC (Hrsg.). Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Mangament. International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Mangament (IC3K-2012), 4th, October 4-7, Barcelona, Spain, Page 454, ISBN 978-3-642-54104-9, Springer, 2014.
Abstract
We propose and develop new innovative methods for guided
exploratory search on the mobile web. The approach has been fully implemented
in a system called MobEx on a tablet, i.e. an Apple iPad,
and on a mobile device/phone, i.e. Apple iPhone or iPod. Starting from
a user's search query a set of web snippets is collected by a standard
search engine in a first step. After that the snippets are collected into
one document from which the topic graph is computed. This topic graph
is presented to the user in different touchable and interactive graphical
representations depending on the screensize of the mobile device.
However due to possible semantic ambiguities in the search queries the
snippets may cover different thematic areas and so the topic graph may
contain associated topics for different semantic entities of the original
query. This may lead the user to wrong directions while exploring the
solution space. Hence we present our approach for an interactive disambiguation
of the search query and so we provide assistance for the users
towards a guided exploratory search.