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Area of Science:

Information Science
Public Health
Digital Humanities

Background:

The Master Settlement Agreement of 1998 made millions of tobacco industry documents publicly accessible online.
The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu) uses traditional information retrieval, leading to information overload for users.
Developing advanced interfaces is crucial for navigating large, complex document collections.

Purpose of the Study:

To address information overload in the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.
To explore the potential of text-mining interfaces for exploratory data analysis.
To identify user needs for enhanced information discovery tools.

Main Methods:

Conducted nine in-depth interviews with regular users of the Legacy interface.
Analyzed user feedback to determine information needs and desired functionalities.
Focused on user-identified requirements for text-mining applications.

Main Results:

Users found clustering to be a valuable tool for identifying key concepts.
Participants highlighted the need for tools to recognize relationships between terms and concepts.
Text mining can facilitate targeted and specific searches, reducing information overload.

Conclusions:

Text-mining interfaces can significantly enhance the discovery of information within large document sets.
User-centered design, incorporating feedback on clustering and relationship identification, is essential for developing effective text-mining tools.
Researchers developing such interfaces should prioritize user needs to improve data exploration and analysis.