Spyglass: A System for Ontology Based Document Retrieval and Visualization

TitleSpyglass: A System for Ontology Based Document Retrieval and Visualization
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2009
AuthorsRushing, J, Berendes, T, Lin, H, Buntain, C, Graves, S
Conference NameThe 22nd International FLAIRS Conference
Date Published05/2009
Conference LocationSanibel Island, FL
KeywordsVisualization services
AbstractThis paper describes the Spyglass tool, which is designed to help analysts explore very large collections of unstructured text documents. Spyglass uses a domain ontology to index documents, and provides retrieval and visualization services based on the ontology and the resulting index. The ontology based approach allows analysts to share information and helps to ensure consistency of results. The approach is also scalable and lends itself very well to parallel computation. The Spyglass system is described in detail and indexing and query results using a large set of sample documents are presented.
URLhttp://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/FLAIRS/2009/paper/view/17