Visual information retrieval for the web

paper we present the conception and the evaluation of a visual information retrieval system for the Web. Our work has been motivated by the lack of good user interfaces assisting the user in searching the Web. The selected visualisations and the reasons why they have been chosen are explained in detail. An evaluation of these visualisa- tions as an add-on to the traditional result list is presented.

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