Visualization of information stream based on keyword map system

An information visualization system, based on which users can find topic distribution from a sequence of document sets, is proposed. As the Web becomes one of the most important information resources for us, the interaction between a human and a Web interface should be considered from various viewpoints, besides that of document retrieval. In this paper, keyword map-based information visualization system, which have the arrangement priority function based on the spring model, is introduced to visualize the topic streams found from a sequence of document sets.