VisElabor - Platform for Elaboration of Search Results

Abstract

VisElabor is a platform for elaborating search results. It is a local meta search engine utilizing general search engines. The system downloads a number of documents from the search results and is dynamically able to cluster them and show them on multiple views. VisElabor visualizes relations of documents based on clustering, and it coordinates the information among the views based on user actions in order to better maintain the user context. In addition, VisElabor has been designed so that it is fairly easy to integrate new visualizations and other elaborations into the system.

Publications

• Juha Litola Internet-hakukoneiden hakutulosten visualisointi (Visualization of Internet Search Engine Results). Master's thesis. Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2005.
• Ari Korhonen, Juha Litola, and Jorma Tarhio Platform for Elaboration of Search Results. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies. Barcelona, Spain. March 3-6, 2007.

License

Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Juha Litola

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

Download and installation

You can download the prototype software from the following location:

http://www.litola.net/juha/diplomityo/visualisointialusta-1.0.tar.gz

Compile and run the program as follows:

tar xzf visualisointialusta-1.0.tar.gz
cd visualisointialusta-1.0
ant
java -jar dippa.jar

See also

http://www.litola.net/juha/diplomityo/.