PROMISE winter school 2012 information retrieval meets information visualization

With the advent of Web search and the large amount of data published on the Web sphere, a tremendous amount of documents become strongly time-dependent. In this respect, the time dimension has been extensively exploited as a highly important relevance ...

No single mechanism can be expected to give optimal retrieval in all cases in information retrieval (IR) context. Many problems have been reported concerning the difficulty of making the right choices at the design stage of information retrieval ...

There are many challenges to visualizing information including choosing between 2D and 3D interfaces, navigation and interaction methods, and selecting an appropriate level of detail. Visualizing information retrieval (IR) search results, including Web ...