title: Contextual annotation of web pages for interactive browsing.
abstract: With the information on the World Wide Web and in specialized databases exploding, researchers and physicians are in dire need to browse efficiently though the large corpus of information resources in their field of interest. The focus is not any longer to find everything related to your interest, but it shifts to zooming in, based on context and expanding again in neighboring knowledge domains. This paper describes an attempt to develop a completely new, interactive way of browsing distributed corpora of information without the need for multiple different queries in different information resources. Classical search engines generally treat search requests in isolation. The results for a given query are identical, and do not automatically take on board the context in which the user made the request. The system described here explores implicit contexts as obtained from the document that the user is reading. The new approach merges the searching and browsing into one combined "read-and-search" mode and alleviates the shift users are normally forced to between searching and reading.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands. e.vanmulligen@erasmusmc.nl
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: van Mulligen
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diwersy
authors.forename: Bob
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Schijvenaars
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weeber
authors.forename: Christiaan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: van der Eijk
authors.forename: Rob
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jelier
authors.forename: Martijn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schuemie
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kors
authors.forename: Barend
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mons
mesh_terms: D019146:Hypermedia; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface