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2007; García et al., 2003; Moench et al., 2003), and they usually use standardized
taxonomies to provide drill-down functionality on the result page. e hierarchical
links shown in Figure13.13 for Squirrel are semantic categories used to classify the
documents at index time.
13.7.2 Faceted Search
In faceted search applications, we use multiple classication schemes to describe a
range of document dimensions. e method provides a more ne-grained descrip-
tion than those oered by taxonomies, although the same dimensions can also
be modeled within extensive ontologies. Normally, the relevant facets are derived
from ...