1. Visualizing Concept Based Text Searches
Zack Jacobson
Ben Houston

2. Concept Based Queries
User gives a query as keywords or in the form of a question.
Search engine (Inquizit) identifies concepts related to the query.
For each concept relevant portions of documents are identified.

3. An Example... 1) The Query: 2) The Concepts:
What color is the sky?
2) The Concepts:
Color, Hue, Sky, Atmosphere
3) The Extracts and Documents:
“the sky is blue.” Questions Children Ask
“the bluish hue results from the refraction of light in the upper atmosphere” Introduction to Physics

4. Visualizing Relations
Concepts.
Extracts
-- relates the Concepts to the Documents.
Documents.
sky
blue
Intro to Physics
Questions Children Ask

5. 3D Layout Mechanism - 1
Concepts
3 fixed planes
Extracts
Documents

6. 3D Layout Mechanism - 2
Upside-down Cone Trees

7. 3D Layout Mechanism - 3 Simulated Annealing Model
(or “Magnets & Elastics” )
attraction
repulsion

8. Densely Connected Example
coloring indicating connectivity
coloring indicating components

9. More Representative Example
top view
clustered Layouts
circular layouts
45o view

10. Web Browser Integration
view an extract
view document

11. Another find product from. Consulting & Audits Canada (http://www. cac
Zack Jacobson -- Cognitive Psychologist Ph.D.
Ben Houston -- Cognitive Science Undergraduate
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