Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

2000

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Horton, Thomas

Thesis/Dissertation Co-Chair

Pandya, Abhijit S.

Abstract

Information access systems have traditionally focused on retrieval of documents consisting of titles and abstracts. The underlying assumptions of such systems are not necessarily appropriate for full text, structured documents. Context and structure should play an important role in information access from full text document collections. When a system retrieves a document in response to a query, it is important to indicate not only how strong the match is (e.g., how many terms from the query are present in the document), but also how frequent each term is, how each term is distributed in the text and where the terms overlap within the document. This information is especially important in long texts, since it is less clear how the terms in the query contribute to the ranking of a long text than a short abstract. This thesis does research in the application of information visualization techniques to the problem of navigating and finding information in XML files which are becoming available in increasing quantities on the World Wide Web (WWW). It provides a methodology for presenting detailed information about a specific topic while also presenting a complete overview of all the information available. A prototype has been developed for visualization of search query results. Limitations of the prototype developed and future direction of work have also been discussed.

Extent

107 p.

Comments

College of Engineering and Computer Science|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.S.C.E.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2000.|College of Engineering and Computer Science

Identifier

FADT12694

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