ScienScan - An Efficient Visualization and Browsing Tool for Academic Search

Abstract

In this paper we present ScienScan – a browsing and visualization tool for academic search. The tool operates in real time by post-processing the query results returned by an academic search engine. ScienScan discovers topics in the search results and summarizes them in the form of a concise hierarchical topic map. The produced topical summary informatively represents the results in a visual way and provides an additional filtering control. We demonstrate the operation of ScienScan deploying it on top of the search API of Microsoft Academic Search.

Cite

Text

Mirylenka and Passerini. "ScienScan - An Efficient Visualization and Browsing Tool for Academic Search." European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2013. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40994-3_51

Markdown

[Mirylenka and Passerini. "ScienScan - An Efficient Visualization and Browsing Tool for Academic Search." European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2013.](https://mlanthology.org/ecmlpkdd/2013/mirylenka2013ecmlpkdd-scienscan/) doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40994-3_51

BibTeX

@inproceedings{mirylenka2013ecmlpkdd-scienscan,
  title     = {{ScienScan - An Efficient Visualization and Browsing Tool for Academic Search}},
  author    = {Mirylenka, Daniil and Passerini, Andrea},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases},
  year      = {2013},
  pages     = {667-671},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-642-40994-3_51},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ecmlpkdd/2013/mirylenka2013ecmlpkdd-scienscan/}
}