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Exploratory search: from finding to understanding

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 49, Issue 4

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1121949.1121979

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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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