Modern Information Retrieval Chapter 10: User Interfaces and Visualization

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2. VIBE and Lyberworld

retrieval results!VIBE retrieval results!Lyberworld VIBE LyberWorld

Graphical presentations that operate on similar principles are VIBE [#!korfhage91!#] and Lyberworld [#!hemmje94!#]. In these displays, query terms are placed in an abstract graphical space. After the search, icons are created that indicate how many documents contain each subset of query terms. The subset status of each group of documents is indicated by the placement of the icon. For example, in VIBE a set of documents that contain three out of five query terms are shown on an axis connecting these three terms, at a point midway between the representations of the three query terms in question. (See Figure .) Lyberworld presents a 3D version of this idea.

  

Figure: An example of the VIBE retrieval results display [#!korfhage91!#].