User Adaptive Methods for Interactive Analysis of Document Databases

The currently available document retrieval tools are usually still based on simple keyword search methods and according result list or a static (hierarchical) classification of the considered document collection. Both approaches neither allow a user to adapt the ranking or the classification to his needs, nor provide visualization methods to support the user in browsing or analysing a document collection. In this article we give a brief overview of our work on user adaptive methods for searching and browsing in document collections.