Indexing by Latent Semantic Analysis
- S. Deerwester, S. Dumais, T. Landauer, G. Furnas, R. Harshman
- Computer ScienceJournal of the American Society for Information…
- 1 September 1990
A new method for automatic indexing and retrieval to take advantage of implicit higher-order structure in the association of terms with documents (“semantic structure”) in order to improve the detection of relevant documents on the basis of terms found in queries.
Generalized fisheye views
- G. Furnas
- Computer ScienceInternational Conference on Human Factors in…
- 1 April 1986
This paper explores fisheye views presenting, in turn, naturalistic studies, a general formalism, a specific instantiation, a resulting computer program, example displays and an evaluation.
The vocabulary problem in human-system communication
- G. Furnas, T. Landauer, L. Gomez, S. Dumais
- Computer ScienceCACM
- 1 November 1987
It is shown how this fundamental property of language limits the success of various design methodologies for vocabulary-driven interaction, and an optimal strategy, unlimited aliasing, is derived and shown to be capable of several-fold improvements.
Using latent semantic analysis to improve access to textual information
- S. Dumais, G. Furnas, T. Landauer, S. Deerwester, R. Harshman
- Computer ScienceInternational Conference on Human Factors in…
- 1 May 1988
Initial tests find this completely automatic method widely applicable and a promising way to improve users' access to many kinds of textual materials, or to objects and services for which textual descriptions are available.
Recommending and evaluating choices in a virtual community of use
- W. Hill, Larry Stead, Mark Rosenstein, G. Furnas
- PsychologyInternational Conference on Human Factors in…
- 1 May 1995
A general history-of-use method that automates a social method for informing choice and report on how it fares in the context of a fielded test case: the selection of videos from a large set of videos.
Space-scale diagrams: understanding multiscale interfaces
- G. Furnas, B. Bederson
- Computer Science, PhysicsInternational Conference on Human Factors in…
- 1 May 1995
Space-scale diagrams provide an analytic framework for much of this work by representing both a spatial world and its different magnifications explicitly, which allows the direct visualization and analysis of important scale related issues for interfaces.
Pictures of relevance: A geometric analysis of similarity measures
A geometric analysis is advanced and its utility demonstrated through its application to six conventional information retrieval similarity measures and a seventh spreading activation measure, intended to complement, and perhaps to guide, the empirical analysis of similarity measures.
The FISHEYE view: a new look at structured les
- G. Furnas
- Computer ScienceInternational Conference on Human Factors in…
- 1986
An input/output subsystem in which a peripheral device controller controls the device in response to commands received from an input/output (I/O) channel which is connected to a processor. A channel…
Information retrieval using a singular value decomposition model of latent semantic structure
- G. Furnas, S. Deerwester, K. Lochbaum
- Computer ScienceAnnual International ACM SIGIR Conference on…
- 1988
In a new method for automatic indexing and retrieval, implicit higher-order structure in the association of terms with documents is modeled to improve estimates of term-document association, and…
Effective view navigation
- G. Furnas
- Computer ScienceInternational Conference on Human Factors in…
- 27 March 1997
The implications of rudimentary requirements for effective view navigation are explored, namely that, despite the vastness of an information structure, the views must be small, moving around must not take too many steps and the route to any target be must be discoverable.
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