A Pairwise Distances Based Visualization System for Information Retrieval

A real-time visualization system based on meta- search engine for information retrieval is introduced. The essential motivation of this system is to organize retrieved documents in a visual way, by allowing users interact with the retrieval process of querying meta-search engines, in order to provide users a straightforward view of the distribution of the results. Instead of focusing on the extent to which the document objects are related with the query, the proposed system focuses on the differences among document objects. Document objects of the result set are distributed by calculating their pair-wise distances and clustering similar documents in a relatively nearby area.