TextData: Save What You Know and Find What You Don't

Kevin Ros, Kedar Takwane, Ashwin Patil, Rakshana Jayaprakash, Cheng Xiang Zhai

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Abstract

In this demonstration, we present TextData, a novel online system that enables users to both "save what they know"and "find what they don't". TextData was developed based on the Community Digital Library (CDL) system. Although the CDL allowed users to bookmark webpages with plain text and provided search and recommendation, it fell short in key features. To better help users save what they know, TextData offers the addition of markdown to submissions for providing a richer method of note-taking. To better help users find what they don't, TextData provides methods for visualizing the relationships among submissions and provides in-context interactive search intent prediction with question-answering via a generative large language model. TextData is free-to-use, can be accessed online, and the source code is publicly available.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSIGIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages2806-2810
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9798400704314
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 10 2024
Event47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024 - Washington, United States
Duration: Jul 14 2024Jul 18 2024

Publication series

NameSIGIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Conference

Conference47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWashington
Period7/14/247/18/24

Keywords

  • in-context search
  • information retrieval
  • interactive search
  • note-taking
  • question answering
  • recommendation
  • social bookmarking

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Software

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