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Constant interaction-time scatter/gather browsing of very large document collections
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The Scatter/Gather document browsing method uses fast document clustering to produce table-of-contents-like outlines of large document collections. Previous work [1] developed linear-time document clustering algorithms to establish the feasibility of this method over moderately large collections. However, even linear-time algorithms are too slow to support interactive browsing of very large collections such as Tipster, the DARPA standard text retrieval evaluation collection. We present a scheme that supports constant interaction-time Scatter/Gather of arbitrarily large collections after near-linear time preprocessing. This involves the construction of a cluster hierarchy. A modification of Scatter/Gather employing this scheme, and an example of its use over the Tipster collection are presented.
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- Authors
- Cutting, D. R., Karger, D. R., & Pedersen, J. O.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 16th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval - SIGIR '93
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- ACM Press
- Published
- 1993
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- 126-134
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- W2008375984
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- 6.53
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- conference paper
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- en
- Open access
- bronze
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