Scientific Publications

@article{Nazemi2017,
title = {Analyzing the Information Search Behavior and Intentions in Visual Information Systems},
author = {Kawa Nazemi and Dirk Burkhardt and Arjan Kuijper},
url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2017jcstu.pdf, Paper as PDF},
doi = {10.15379/2410-2938.2017.04.02.02},
issn = {2410-2938},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-12-26},
journal = {Journal of Computer Science Technology Updates (JCSTU)},
volume = {4},
number = {2},
pages = {19--27},
abstract = {Visual information search systems support different search approaches such as targeted, exploratory or analytical search. Those visual systems deal with the challenge of composing optimal initial result visualization sets that face the search intention and respond to the search behavior of users. The diversity of these kinds of search tasks require different sets of visual layouts and functionalities, e.g. to filter, thrill-down or even analyze concrete data properties. This paper describes a new approach to calculate the probability towards the three mentioned search intentions, derived from users’ behavior. The implementation is realized as a web-service, which is included in a visual environment that is designed to enable various search strategies based on heterogeneous data sources. In fact, based on an entered search query our developed search intention analysis web-service calculates the most probable search task, and our visualization system initially shows the optimal result set of visualizations to solve the task. The main contribution of this paper is a probability-based approach to derive the users’ search intentions based on the search behavior enhanced by the application to a visual system.},
keywords = {Adaptive Visualization, Distant Supervision, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Retrieval, Information Search Behavior, Interactive Search, Predictive Analysis, User-Centered Design},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}

@article{Burkhardt2016,
title = {Search Intention Analysis for Task- and User-Centered Visualization in Big Data Applications},
author = {Dirk Burkhardt and Sachin Pattan and Kawa Nazemi and Arjan Kuijper},
editor = {Egils Ginters and Jörn Kohlhammer},
url = {https://dirk.burkhardt.xyz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2016icte.pdf, Paper as PDF},
doi = {10.1016/j.procs.2017.01.170},
issn = {1877-0509},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-01-30},
journal = {Procedia Computer Science. ICTE 2016, Riga Technical University, Latvia},
volume = {104},
pages = {539 - 547},
abstract = {A new approach for classifying users’ search intentions is described in this paper. The approach uses the parameters: word frequency, query length and entity matching for distinguishing the user's query into exploratory, targeted and analysis search. The approach focuses mainly on word frequency analysis, where different sources for word frequency data are considered such as the Wortschatz frequency service by the University of Leipzig and the Microsoft Ngram service (now part of the Microsoft Cognitive Services). The model is evaluated with the help of a survey tool and few machine learning techniques. The survey was conducted with more than one hundred users and on evaluating the model with the collected data, the results are satisfactory. In big data applications the search intention analysis can be used to identify the purpose of a performed search, to provide an optimal initially set of visualizations that respects the intended task of the user to work with the result data.},
keywords = {Human-Computer Interaction, Information Retrieval, Interactive Search, Predictive Analysis, User-Centered Design},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}