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Exploratory search: from finding to understanding

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Research tools critical for exploratory search success involve the creation of new interfaces that move the process beyond predictable fact retrieval.

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              cover image Communications of the ACM
              Communications of the ACM  Volume 49, Issue 4
              Supporting exploratory search
              April 2006
              110 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/1121949
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