Enabling Exploratory Browsing using Dynamic Search Result Tagging, Highlighting, and Filtering
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In academic digital libraries, searchers commonly engage in exploratory search when faced with complex search tasks. An important part of exploratory search is exploratory browsing, where the focus is on search activities associated with discovery, learning, and investigation. However, these critical aspects of exploratory browsing are often not adequately supported by existing digital library search systems. In particular, they are hindered by the inability for searchers to add further information to inform their exploratory browsing style of searching. We address this issue by providing two new features: dynamic tagging of search results and an interactive workspace that allows the searcher to highlight and filter the search results using these tags. We have evaluated this approach compared to a baseline search system in a 32-participant user study. Increases in typical subjective measures were found, along with increases in perceived motivation and ability. Further, the documents saved as part of the exploratory browsing process were of higher precision when using this approach. These results show the value of providing searchers with interactive features that enable an exploratory browsing style of searching, beyond simply entering a query and selecting/saving search results.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it