{"id":1220,"date":"2009-06-29T07:28:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T14:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2009-06-29T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T20:32:06","slug":"search-user-interfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"Search User Interfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Marti Hearst | University of California, Berkeley\" href=\"http:\/\/people.ischool.berkeley.edu\/~hearst\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marti Hearst<\/a>&#8216;s new book, <a title=\"Search User Interfaces | Marti Hearst\" href=\"http:\/\/searchuserinterfaces.com\/book\/\" target=\"_blank\">Search User Interfaces<\/a>, is out, as Daniel Tunkelang <a title=\"Marti Hearst\u2019s Book on Search User Interfaces | The Noisy Channel\" href=\"http:\/\/thenoisychannel.com\/2009\/06\/22\/marti-hearsts-book-on-search-user-interfaces\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> earlier. The book covers a range of topics related to interaction around information seeking, including topics such as design, evaluation, models of information seeking, query reformulation, etc. It also discusses emerging trends: Mobile Search Interfaces, Multimedia (although this field has arguably been around long enough to no longer be emerging),  Social Search, and natural-language queries. The Social Search section discusses collaborative filtering, recommendation systems, and <a title=\"Communicating about Collaboration | FXPAL Blog\" href=\"..\/?p=249\" target=\"_blank\">collaborative search<\/a>, describing several systems along the full range of <a title=\"Communicating about Collaboration: Depth of mediation| FXPAL Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=274\" target=\"_blank\">depth of mediation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Marti&#8217;s book joins a parade of other recent publications related to information retrieval, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Geometry-Information-Retrieval-van-Rijsbergen\/dp\/0521838053\/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1245999949&amp;sr=1-12\">The Geometry of Information Retrieval<\/a> by C. J. van Rijsbergen (September 2004)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Turn-Integration-Information-Seeking-Retrieval\/dp\/140203850X\/ref=sr_1_37?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1246000644&amp;sr=1-37\">The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context (The Information Retrieval Series)<\/a> Peter Ingwersen and Kalervo J\u00e4rvelin (September 2005)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Information-Extraction-Algorithms-Prospects-Retrieval\/dp\/1402049870\/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1245999949&amp;sr=1-11\">Information Extraction: Algorithms and Prospects in a Retrieval Context (The Information Retrieval Series)<\/a> by Marie-Francine Moens (October 2006)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Information-Retrieval-Systems-Library-Science\/dp\/0123694124\/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1245999949&amp;sr=1-6\">Text Information Retrieval Systems, Third Edition (Library and Information Science)<\/a> by Charles T. Meadow, Bert R. Boyce, Donald H. Kraft,  and Carol L Barry (March 2007)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Introduction-Information-Retrieval-Christopher-Manning\/dp\/0521865719\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1245999949&amp;sr=1-1\">Introduction to Information Retrieval<\/a> by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Sch\u00fctze (July 2007)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Information-Retrieval-Motion-Meinard-M%C3%BCller\/dp\/3540740473\/ref=sr_1_36?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1246000502&amp;sr=1-36\">Information Retrieval for Music and Motion<\/a> by Meinard M\u00fcller (November 2007)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Visualization-Information-Retrieval\/dp\/3540751475\/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1246000338&amp;sr=1-15\">Visualization for Information Retrieval (The Information Retrieval Series)<\/a> by Jin Zhang (December 2007)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Personalized-Information-Retrieval-Access-Practices\/dp\/1599045109\/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1246000338&amp;sr=1-20\">Personalized Information Retrieval and Access: Concepts, Methods and Practices (Premier Reference Source)<\/a> by Rafael Andres Gonzalez Rivera, Nong Chen,  and Ajantha Dahanayake (April 2008)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Latent-Semantic-Indexing-Information-Retrieval\/dp\/3639003942\/ref=sr_1_32?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1246000502&amp;sr=1-32\">Latent Semantic Indexing and Information Retrieval<\/a> by Johanna Gei\u00df (April 2008)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Modern-Algebra-Information-Retrieval\/dp\/3540776583\/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1245999949&amp;sr=1-7\">The Modern Algebra of Information Retrieval (The Information Retrieval Series)<\/a> by S\u00e1ndor Dominich (April 2008)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Information-Retrieval-Biomedical-Perspective-Informatics\/dp\/038778702X\/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1246000338&amp;sr=1-13\">Information Retrieval: A Health and Biomedical Perspective (Health Informatics)<\/a> by William Hersh (November 2008)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Statistical-Information-Retrieval-Synthesis-Technologies\/dp\/159829590X\/ref=sr_1_30?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1246000502&amp;sr=1-30\">Statistical Language Models for Information Retrieval (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies)<\/a> by ChengXiang Zhai (December 2008)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Search-Engines-Information-Retrieval-Practice\/dp\/0136072240\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1245999949&amp;sr=1-2\">Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice<\/a> by Bruce Croft, Donald Metzler, and Trevor Strohman (February 2009)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Law-Semantic-Web-Methodologies-Applications\/dp\/3540250638\/ref=sr_1_43?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1246000644&amp;sr=1-43\">Law and the Semantic Web: Legal Ontologies, Methodologies, Legal Information Retrieval, and Applications (Lecture Notes in Computer Science \/ Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)<\/a> by Richard Benjamins, Pompeu Casanovas, Joost Breuker,  and Aldo Gangemi (February 2009)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Exploratory-Search-Query-Response-Synthesis-Information\/dp\/159829783X\/ref=sr_1_40?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1246000644&amp;sr=1-40\"> Exploratory Search: Beyond the Query-Response Paradigm (Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval &amp; Services)<\/a> by Ryen White and Resa A. Roth (March 2009)<\/li>\n<li>(and of course)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Synthesis-Lectures-Information-Concepts-Retrieval\/dp\/1598299999\/ref=sr_1_49?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1246000809&amp;sr=1-49\">Faceted Search (Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services)<\/a> by Daniel Tunkelang (June 2009)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list is quite <em>ad hoc<\/em>, and I am sure I missed more than one relevant title. But the point is that this is a field that is generating interest and (presumably) selling books. Search User Interfaces brings a welcome complementary perspective, focusing on interaction around information seeking rather than predominantly on the algorithms that facilitate the actual indexing and retrieval, which are well covered in the list above. I am also thrilled that the publishers saw fit to make it available online, as it will be an invaluable reference for prior work in this area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Daniel Tunkelang&#8217;s book is available now <a title=\"Faceted Search | Morgan &amp; Claypool\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.aidcvt.com\/mcp\/ProdDetails.asp?ID=9781598299991\" target=\"_blank\">from the publisher<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>Update<\/strong>: Fixed a bunch of HTML nonsense in the above list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marti Hearst&#8216;s new book, Search User Interfaces, is out, as Daniel Tunkelang reported earlier. 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