TY - GEN
T1 - Rich interfaces for reading news on the web
AU - Wagner, Earl J.
AU - Liu, Jiahui
AU - Birnbaum, Lawrence A
AU - Forbus, Kenneth D
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Using content-specific models to guide information retrieval and extraction can provide richer interfaces to end-users for both understanding the context of news events and navigating related news articles. In this paper we discuss a system, Brussell, that uses semantic models to organize retrieval and extraction results, generating both storylines explaining how news event situations unfold and also biographical sketches of the situation participants. We generalize these models to introduce a new category of knowledge representation, an explanatory structure, that can scale up to include information from hundreds of documents, yet still provide model-based UI support to end-users. An informal survey of business news suggests the broad prevalence of news event situations indicating Brussell's potential utility, while an evaluation quantifies its performance in finding kidnapping situations.
AB - Using content-specific models to guide information retrieval and extraction can provide richer interfaces to end-users for both understanding the context of news events and navigating related news articles. In this paper we discuss a system, Brussell, that uses semantic models to organize retrieval and extraction results, generating both storylines explaining how news event situations unfold and also biographical sketches of the situation participants. We generalize these models to introduce a new category of knowledge representation, an explanatory structure, that can scale up to include information from hundreds of documents, yet still provide model-based UI support to end-users. An informal survey of business news suggests the broad prevalence of news event situations indicating Brussell's potential utility, while an evaluation quantifies its performance in finding kidnapping situations.
KW - Design
KW - Explanatory structures
KW - Human factors
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U2 - 10.1145/1502650.1502658
DO - 10.1145/1502650.1502658
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77953872456
SN - 9781605581682
T3 - International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI
SP - 27
EP - 36
BT - Proceedingsc of the 13th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI'09
T2 - 13th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI'09
Y2 - 8 February 2009 through 11 February 2009
ER -