LogCanvas: Visualizing Search History Using Knowledge Graphs
This demo paper presents an incremental tool for users to better manage and visualize their search activities, with potential applications in information retrieval and collaborative work.
The authors tackled the problem of visualizing search history by introducing LogCanvas, a platform that segments search history into sessions and generates knowledge graphs to represent semantic relationships among queries, enabling efficient re-finding of previous results and supporting collaborative sharing.
In this demo paper, we introduce LogCanvas, a platform for user search history visualisation. Different from the existing visualisation tools, LogCanvas focuses on helping users re-construct the semantic relationship among their search activities. LogCanvas segments a user's search history into different sessions and generates a knowledge graph to represent the information exploration process in each session. A knowledge graph is composed of the most important concepts or entities discovered by each search query as well as their relationships. It thus captures the semantic relationship among the queries. LogCanvas offers a session timeline viewer and a snippets viewer to enable users to re-find their previous search results efficiently. LogCanvas also provides a collaborative perspective to support a group of users in sharing search results and experience.