Ontology-assisted provenance visualization for supporting enterprise search of engineering and business files

In many large engineering enterprises, searching for files is a high-volume routine activity. Visualization-assisted search facilities can significantly reduce the cost of such activities. In this paper, we introduce the concept of Search Provenance Graph (SPG), and present a technique for mapping o...

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Main Authors: Khan, S, Kanturska, U, Waters, T, Eaton, J, Bañares-Alcántara, R, Chen, M
Format: Journal article
Published: Elsevier 2016
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author Khan, S
Kanturska, U
Waters, T
Eaton, J
Bañares-Alcántara, R
Chen, M
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Kanturska, U
Waters, T
Eaton, J
Bañares-Alcántara, R
Chen, M
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description In many large engineering enterprises, searching for files is a high-volume routine activity. Visualization-assisted search facilities can significantly reduce the cost of such activities. In this paper, we introduce the concept of Search Provenance Graph (SPG), and present a technique for mapping out the search results and externalizing the provenance of a search process. This enables users to be aware of collaborative search activities within a project, and to be able to reason about potential missing files (i.e., false negatives) more effectively. We describe multiple ontologies that enable the computation of SPGs while supporting an enterprise search engine. We demonstrate the novelty and application of this technique through an industrial case study, where a large engineering enterprise needs to make a long-term technological plan for large-scale document search, and has found the visualization-assisted approach to be more cost-effective than alternative approaches being studied.
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spelling oxford-uuid:615aad22-4746-477b-ab19-54e58b6d315e2022-03-26T17:59:18ZOntology-assisted provenance visualization for supporting enterprise search of engineering and business filesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:615aad22-4746-477b-ab19-54e58b6d315eSymplectic Elements at OxfordElsevier2016Khan, SKanturska, UWaters, TEaton, JBañares-Alcántara, RChen, MIn many large engineering enterprises, searching for files is a high-volume routine activity. Visualization-assisted search facilities can significantly reduce the cost of such activities. In this paper, we introduce the concept of Search Provenance Graph (SPG), and present a technique for mapping out the search results and externalizing the provenance of a search process. This enables users to be aware of collaborative search activities within a project, and to be able to reason about potential missing files (i.e., false negatives) more effectively. We describe multiple ontologies that enable the computation of SPGs while supporting an enterprise search engine. We demonstrate the novelty and application of this technique through an industrial case study, where a large engineering enterprise needs to make a long-term technological plan for large-scale document search, and has found the visualization-assisted approach to be more cost-effective than alternative approaches being studied.
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Kanturska, U
Waters, T
Eaton, J
Bañares-Alcántara, R
Chen, M
Ontology-assisted provenance visualization for supporting enterprise search of engineering and business files
title Ontology-assisted provenance visualization for supporting enterprise search of engineering and business files
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title_short Ontology-assisted provenance visualization for supporting enterprise search of engineering and business files
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