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Supporting insight-based information exploration in intelligence analysis

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Capturing the exploratory search process can help represent analytical insight.

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              cover image Communications of the ACM
              Communications of the ACM  Volume 49, Issue 4
              Supporting exploratory search
              April 2006
              110 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/1121949
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