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Term distribution visualizations with Focus+Context

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Many text searches are meant to identify one particular fact or one particular section of a document. Unfortunately, predominant search paradigms focus mostly on identifying relevant documents and leave the burden of within-document searching on the user. This research explores term distribution visualizations as a means to more clearly identify both the relevance of documents and the location of specific information within them. We present a set of term distribution visualizations and introduce a Focus+Context model for within-document search and navigation.

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      2. information retrieval
      3. term distribution
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      • (2008)A Term Distribution Visualization Approach to Digital Forensic String SearchProceedings of the 5th international workshop on Visualization for Computer Security10.1007/978-3-540-85933-8_4(36-43)Online publication date: 15-Sep-2008

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