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Developing intuition for the content of a digital collection is difficult. Hierarchies of subject terms allow users to explore the space of topics that a collection covers, to form and specialize useful query terms, and to directly identify interesting documents. We describe two interfaces for navigating such hierarchies, and present a technique for inferring hierarchies automatically from large corpora. We also discuss scalability issues for the techniques involved, and our solutions to these problems.
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Received: 15 December 1997 / Revised: June 1999
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Nevill-Manning, C.G., Witten, I.H. & Paynter, G.W. Lexically-generated subject hierarchies for browsing large collections. Int J Digit Libr 2, 111–123 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007990050041
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s007990050041