Visual Data Browser

Figure 1. Start browsing with "Gladiator"

One of the main motivation of NaverLab Semantic Movie Search is to provide a convenient vehicle for the ceaseless navigation through the movie data space. During navigation one may come across a lot of unexpected discoveries. The visual browsing interface of NaverLab Semantic Movie Search is a really excellent vehicle for the fast and easy navigation. Just a mouse click leads to a new search and instantly bring new results.

The following is a simple browsing scenario initiating from “Gladiator”. There are six properties to select: director, country, crew, award, actor, role. (Fig. 1)

1. Select “actor”, then in 2nd column all the actors in Gladiator are displayed. (Fig. 2)
2. Click “Russell Crowe”. This means a specific object is selected. (Fig. 3) You may deselect the object by clicking the x-button and reselect another object.
3. Select “movie” that Russell Crowe appears. Then all the Russell Crowe’s movies are displayed in the 3rd column. (Fig. 4)
4. Select “actor” then all the actors who appear in all the Russel Crowe’s movies are displayed in the 4th column. (Fig. 5)
5. Click “Leonardo DiCaprio”. Then very interesting change happens. The movies in the 3rd column disappear except only the movies that both Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe appear. (Fig. 6) This is one of the very powerful querying capabilities of our visual browser.

Maximum 4 columns are displayed. But you may keep going to navigate in the right direction. If a new column comes in, then automatically the left-most column disappear to the left. The most 10 recent columns are kept and the 4-column window may slide left or right within the 10-column range. So you may backtrack to a certain past column and take other path.

Figure 2. All the actors appearing in Gladiator, in the 2nd column.

Figure 3. Selecting Russll Crowe

Figure 4. All the movies that Russell Crowe appear in, in the 3rd column.

Figure 5. All the actors who appear in all the Russel Crowe’s movies, in the 4th column.

Figure 6. Selecting Leonardo DiCaprio which results to displaying only the movies that both Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio appear in.