Semantic Web Dog Food

Presented at: 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008)

by Xianyong Fang, Christian Jacquemin, Frédéric Vernier

The Semantic Web calls for a new generation of search query visualizer that can rely on the document metadata. For this purpose, we present the design of WebViser a visualizer and browser of search results organized along three dimensions: a class based representation of documents on carousels, a stack structure of classes according to their ranking, and a meta carousel for the localization of class stacks associated with different queries. In addition links that connect documents through metadata comparison are displayed in such a way that link overlaps and visualization cluttering are minimized. A qualitative evaluation provides interesting insights on the users’ appropriation of the interface and demonstrates that this system is an effective complementary to the traditional explorer for Semantic Web search engines.

Keywords: Carousel stack, Document visualization, Metadata comparison, Semantic web search engines

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