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This paper presents an approach to browse collections of web pages about music artists by means of descriptive terms and multimedia content. To this end, a user interface called Three-Dimensional Co-Occurrence Browser (3D-COB) is introduced. 3D-COB automatically extracts and weights terms from artist-related web pages. This textual information is complemented with information on the multimedia content found on the web pages. For the user interface of 3D-COB, we elaborated a three-dimensional extension of the Sunburst visualization technique. The hierarchical data to be visualized is obtained by analyzing the web pages for combinations of co-occurring terms that are highly ranked by a term weighting function.
As for evaluation, we investigated different term weighting strategies in a first user study. A second user study was carried out to assess ergonomic aspects of 3D-COB, especially its usefulness for gaining a quick overview of a set of web pages and for efficiently browsing within this set.
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Schedl, M., Pohle, T. (2008). Exploring Music Artists via Descriptive Terms and Multimedia Content. In: Duke, D., Hardman, L., Hauptmann, A., Paulus, D., Staab, S. (eds) Semantic Multimedia. SAMT 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5392. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92235-3_12
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