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Faceted Search

Zhao Jing

2009-02-28

Outline

What is faceted search? Why use faceted search? Topics of interests Faceted Search in Dataspace

Outline

What is faceted search? Why use faceted search? Topics of interests Faceted Search in Dataspace

Facet

Any of the surfaces of a cut gemstone.

“A clearly defined, mutually exclusive, and collectively exhaustive aspects, properties or characteristics of a class or specific subject" Maple, A. (1995) Faceted Access: A Review of the Literature

Examples of Facets

FacetedDBLP Publication years Publication types Venues Authors Topics ( GrowBag

graphs for keyword)

Faceted search

Faceted search, also called faceted navigation or faceted browsing, is a technique for accessing a collection of information represented using a faceted classification, allowing users to explore by filtering available information. (Wikipedia)

Outline

What is faceted search? Why use faceted search? Topics of interests Faceted Search in Dataspace

Web Search VS. Site Search（ 1 ）

Web search is OK Most successful at directing users to

appropriate web site Survey finds high user satisfaction Study by npd group http://www.searchenginewatch.com/reports/npd.html

NPD

Web Search VS. Site Search（ 2 ）

Notorious site search

A Study by Vividence Research Spring 2001, 69 web sites

70% eCommerce 31% Service 21% Content 2% Community

The most common problems:53% had poorly organized search results32% had poor information architecture32% had slow performance27% had cluttered home pages25% had confusing labels15% invasive registration13% inconsistent navigation

Why?

Seek an information resource based on a variety of characteristics

A single hierarchical structure approach Hard to develop Bias access

Navigational search

Faceted search

Direct search

COMBINED

Differences

Navigational search VS. Faceted search Direct search VS. Faceted search

Clustering VS. Faceted categories Tag VS. Facet

Navigational search VS. Faceted search

Education > Higher Education > Colleges and Universities > Stanford University

Navigational search VS. Faceted search

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Region

Education

Colleges and UniversitiesEducation

Region

Colleges and Universities

Region

Direct search VS. Faceted search

Keyword search: Allows users to enter any number of words and shows the results as a list of titles in a certain order.

Direct search VS. Faceted search

Keyword search: Allows users to enter any number of words and shows the results as a list of titles in a certain order.

Advanced search: Exposes much of metadata to user in the form of checkboxes and drop-down lists. All facet selections are ANDed together.

Direct search VS. Faceted search

Faceted search: A successful complement to keyword searching. Organize the structure of results. Show previews of where to go next. Seamlessly integrating free text search within

the category structure. Avoid empty results sets.

Clustering VS. Faceted categories

Clustering refers to the grouping of items according to some measure of similarity.

Advantages: Fully automatable. Can be easily applied to any text collection. Reveal new trends in a group of documents.

Marti A. Hearst, Clustering versus faceted categories for information exploration . SPECIAL ISSUE: Supporting exploratory search 2006

Clustering VS. Faceted categories

Reveal new trends in a group of documents.

Marti A. Hearst, Clustering versus faceted categories for information exploration . SPECIAL ISSUE: Supporting exploratory search 2006

Hotels Photos Restaurants, Cuisine Mardi Gras Events Tours New Orleans area ……

Hurricane Hotels Photos Restaurants Tours New Orleans area ……

March, 2005 Sep. 16, 2005

Query: New Orleans

Clustering VS. Faceted categories

Clustering refers to the grouping of items according to some measure of similarity.

Advantages: Fully automatable. Can be easily applied to any text collection. Reveal new trends in a group of documents.

Disadvantages: Presentation is hardly ideal Different levels of granularity

Marti A. Hearst, Clustering versus faceted categories for information exploration . SPECIAL ISSUE: Supporting exploratory search 2006

Clustering VS. Faceted categories

Clustering VS. Faceted categories

Marti A. Hearst, Clustering versus faceted categories for information exploration . SPECIAL ISSUE: Supporting exploratory search 2006

Drawback: Category hierarchies are built by hand.

Tag VS. Facet

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What is faceted search? Why use faceted search? Topics of interests Faceted Search in Dataspace

Topics of interests

Facet construction User interface Dynamic faceted search ……

Facet construction Mark Sanderson, Bruce Croft, Deriving concept hierarchies from

text. SIGIR , pages: 206 – 213, 1999,  

Wisam Dakka, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Kenneth R. Wood, Automatic construction of multifaceted browsing interfaces. CIKM, pages: 768 – 775, 2005.

Wisam Dakka, Rishabh Dayal, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Automatic discovery of useful facet terms. SIGIR06

Wisam Dakka, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Automatic extraction of useful facet hierarchies from text databases. ICDE, pages: 466-475,2008.

User Interface Holger bast, Ingmar Weber, When You’re Lost for Words: Faceted Search

with Autocompletion. SIGIR’06 Workshop on Faceted Search Type less, find more: Fast autocompletion search with a succinct index. SIGIR’06

Marti A. Hearst, UIs for Faceted Navigation Recent Advances and Remaining Open Problems. HCIR2008

G. Smith, M. Czerwinski, B. Meyers, D. Robbins, G. Robertson, and D. Tan. FacetMap: A Scalable Search and Browse Visualization. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., pages 797–804, 2006.

A. Karlson, G. Robertson, D. Robbins, M. Czerwinski,and G. Smith. FaThumb: a facet-based interface for mobile search. SIGCHI, pages 711–720,2006.

Raimund Dachselt, Mathias Frisch, Markus Weiland, FacetZoom: a continuous multi-scale widget for navigating hierarchical metadata. SIGCHI, pages 1353-1356, 2008.  

User Interface Holger base Ingmar Weber, When You’re Lost for Words: Faceted Search

with Autocompletion. SIGIR’06 Workshop on Faceted Search Type less, find more: Fast autocompletion search with a succinct index. SIGIR’06

Marti A. Hearst, UIs for Faceted Navigation Recent Advances and Remaining Open Problems. HCIR2008

G. Smith, M. Czerwinski, B. Meyers, D. Robbins, G. Robertson, and D. Tan. FacetMap: A Scalable Search and Browse Visualization. IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., pages 797–804, 2006.

A. Karlson, G. Robertson, D. Robbins, M. Czerwinski,and G. Smith. FaThumb: a facet-based interface for mobile search. SIGCHI, pages 711–720,2006.

Raimund Dachselt, Mathias Frisch, Markus Weiland, FacetZoom: a continuous multi-scale widget for navigating hierarchical metadata. SIGCHI, pages 1353-1356, 2008.  

Recent advances

Group related facets together. Auto-suggest search within facets. Keyword search terms affecting facet label

ordering.

Group related facets together

UIs for Faceted Navigation Recent Advances and Remaining Open Problems. Marti A. Hearst, HCIR2008

Auto-suggest search within facets

Auto-suggest-- help user finish formulating their query.

Provide separate

autocomplete

entry forms for

each facet.

When You’re Lost for Words: Faceted Search with Autocompletion.Holger base Ingmar Weber, SIGIR’06 Workshop on Faceted Search

Keywords affecting facet label ordering

Use the items typed in to change the order of labels shown within facets.

UIs for Faceted Navigation Recent Advances and Remaining Open Problems. Marti A. Hearst, HCIR2008

Yelp VS. Flamenco

Standard faceted navigation: Items determine which facet labels are shown.

Return: Contain that word. Assigned that label. Aggregation of facet labels that are assigned to those

retrieved items.

UIs for Faceted Navigation Recent Advances and Remaining Open Problems. Marti A. Hearst, HCIR2008

Open problems

Facets on mobile interfaces Visualizations of faceted navigation ……

Dynamic faceted search Debabrata Dash, Jun Rao, Nimrod Megiddo, Anastasia Ailamaki, Guy

Lohman, Dynamic Faceted Search for Discovery-driven Analysis. CIKM, Pages 3-12, 2008.

Senjuti Basu Roy, Haidong Wang, Gautam Das, Ullas Nambiar , Mukesh Mohania, Minimum-Effort Driven Dynamic Faceted Search in Structured Databases. CIKM, Pages 13-22, 2008.

Outline

What is faceted search? Why use faceted search? Topics of interests Faceted Search in Dataspace

Faceted Search in Dataspace

Faceted browsing Task Type

E-mail 、 Image 、 doc 、 PPT …… Size Time

UI

Faceted search

Zhao Jing

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