Information Visualization Interfaces for Retrieval and Analysis (IVIRA) Workshop Summary Javed Mostafa Laboratory for Applied Informatics Research Indiana University, Rm. 011D, 10th Street & Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, IN. 47405 jm(@-indiana .edu Katy Borner School of Library and Information Science Indiana University, 10th Street & Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, IN . 47405 katv(cDindiana .edu The IVIRA workshop was held on Saturday May 31st in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2003 at the Rice University Campus in Houston, Texas . Katy Borner and Javed Mostafa jointly organized the workshop. Javed Mostafa opened the half-day with a brief introduction in which he summarized the significance of three key areas in information retrieval visualization : functions, infrastructure, and evaluation. Functions of IVIIR systems include "prototypical" ones such as browse, search, refinement, and presentation . However, increasingly users demand more - features and tools to help them interactively mine data, generate patterns, and conduct analysis on data. In IV/IR systems the computing infrastructure plays a critical role by providing access to different standard corpora for training and testing systems, pre-established results for validation, and welltested modules to reduce development time. Evaluation is a related area requiring attention especially in an emerging
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