Consideration of Keyword Arrangement Pattern on Keyword Map depending on Importance of Keywords

Abstract

This paper considers the influence given by the importance of keywords to the arrangement pattern by the user. We conduct the experiments in which subjects are asked to arranges the keywords on the same map, when the keywords are classified into several groups in terms of their importance. From the results, the relative position between keywords with different importance is investigated. It is confirmed that there exist typical arrangement patterns in terms of the user's intentions. The result will be used to extract the user's intention from the keyword map for realiziy interactive information retrieval.