TY - Generic T1 - Genre based navigation on the Web T2 - Proceedings of the 34th Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) Y1 - 2001 A1 - Roussinov, Dmitri A1 - Kevin Crowston A1 - Nilan, Michael A1 - Kwaśnik, Barbara H. A1 - Xiaozhong Liu A1 - Cai, J. AB - We report on our ongoing study of using the genre of Web pages to facilitate information exploration. By genre, we mean socially recognized regularities of form and purpose in documents (e.g., a letter, a memo, a research paper). Our study had three phases. First, through a user study, we identified genres which most/least frequently meet searchers' information needs. We found that certain genres are better suited for certain types of needs. We identified five (5) major groups of document genres that might be used in an interactive search tool that would allow genrebased navigation. We tried to balance the following dual objectives: 1) each group should be recognizable by a computer algorithm as easily as possible 2) each group has a better chance of satisfying particular types of information needs. Finally, we developed a novel user interface for a web searching that allows genre-based navigation through three major functionalities: 1) limiting search to specified genres 2) visualizing the hierarchy of genres discovered in the search results and 3) accepting user feedback on the relevancy of the specified genres. JF - Proceedings of the 34th Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS) PB - IEEE CY - Maui, HI, January SN - 0-7695-0981-9 ER - TY - MGZN T1 - Identifying document genre to improve web search effectiveness Y1 - 2001 A1 - Kwaśnik, Barbara H. A1 - Kevin Crowston A1 - Nilan, Michael A1 - Roussinov, Dmitri JF - The Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology VL - 27 UR - http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Dec-01/kwasnikartic.html ER -