Visualization of the Search Results of the Semantic Web Search Engines

The Semantic Web calls for a new generation of search query visualizer that can rely on the document metadata. For this purpose, we present the design of WebViser a visualizer and browser of search results organized along three dimensions: a class based representation of documents on carousels, a stack structure of classes according to their ranking, and a meta carousel for the localization of class stacks associated with different queries. In addition links that connect documents through metadata comparison are displayed in such a way that link overlaps and visualization cluttering are minimized. A qualitative evaluation provides interesting insights on the users’ appropriation of the interface and demonstrates that this system is an effective complementary to the traditional explorer for Semantic Web search engines.