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fKWIC: Frequency‐based keyword‐in‐context index for filtering Web search results

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  • Mika Käki

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Enormous Web search engine databases combined with short search queries result in large result sets that are often difficult to access. Result ranking works fairly well, but users need help when it fails. For these situations, we propose a filtering interface that is inspired by keyword‐in‐context (KWIC) indices. The user interface lists the most frequent keyword contexts (fKWIC). When a context is selected, the corresponding results are displayed in the result list, allowing users to concentrate on the specific context. We compared the keyword context index user interface to the rank order result listing in an experiment with 36 participants. The results show that the proposed user interface was 29% faster in finding relevant results, and the precision of the selected results was 19% higher. In addition, participants showed positive attitudes toward the system.

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  • Mika Käki, 2006. "fKWIC: Frequency‐based keyword‐in‐context index for filtering Web search results," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 57(12), pages 1606-1615, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:57:y:2006:i:12:p:1606-1615
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.20338
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