Internet Browsing and Searching: User Evaluation of Category Map and Concept Space Techniques

Chen, Hsinchun and Houston, Andrea L. and Sewell, Robin R. and Schatz, Bruce R. (1998) Internet Browsing and Searching: User Evaluation of Category Map and Concept Space Techniques. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Special Issue on AI Techniques for Emerging Information Systems Applications 49(7):pp. 582-603.

Abstract

Research was focused on discovering whether two of the algorithms the research group has developed can help improve browsing and/or searching the Internet. Results indicate that a Kohonen self-organizing map (SOM)-based algorithm can successfully categorize a large and eclectic Internet information space into managable sub-spaces that users can successfully navigate to locate a homepage of interest to them.