Cloudy with a Chance of Concepts

摘要

In this paper we present the results of a study to see whether automatically generated concept maps help users of legal information systems in understanding the topics of documents they retrieve. A small formative evaluation with novice users is presented. We did not find a significant difference between the ability to connect the correct visualisation to a document between a topic cloud and concept map approach. Topic clouds are probably a little easier to understand quickly in a superficial way.