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Scatter/gather browsing communicates the topic structure of a very large text collection
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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: common ground table of contents
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Pages: 213 - 220  
Year of Publication: 1996
ISBN:0-89791-777-4
Authors
Peter Pirolli  Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA
Patricia Schank  Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA
Marti Hearst  Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA
Christine Diehl  Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA
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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
          Subjects: Clustering


General Terms:
Measurement, Performance, Theory


Keywords:
Scatter/Gather, browsing, clustering, information retrieval

Collaborative Colleagues:
Peter Pirolli: colleagues
Patricia Schank: colleagues
Marti Hearst: colleagues
Christine Diehl: colleagues

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