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WALT (Washington University's Approach to Lots of Text), is a prototype interface designed to support information retrieval research. The WALT interface serves as a "front end" to a wide array of retrieval engines including those based on Boolean retrieval, latent semantic indexing, term frequency--inverse document frequency, and Bayesian inference techniques. The WALT interface is composed of seven distinct components: a document examination component known as the Document Browsing Area; four navigation components called the Book Shelf, the Book Spine, the Table of Contents, and the Path Clipboard; a term-based information retrieval component called Control Panel; and a relevance feedback component known as the Reader Feedback Panel. WALT's most unique feature may be it's use of "book shelf" and "book spine" metaphors both to facilitate navigation and to provide a histogram-based display showing documents deemed appropriate for answering user queries.
WALT（华盛顿大学的大量文本处理方法）是一个旨在支持信息检索研究的原型界面。WALT 界面作为各种检索引擎的“前端”，包括基于布尔检索、潜在语义索引、词频-逆文档频率和贝叶斯推理技术的引擎。WALT 界面由七个不同的组件组成：一个称为文档浏览区的文档检查组件；四个导航组件，分别称为书架、书脊、目录和路径剪贴板；一个称为控制面板的基于术语的信息检索组件；以及一个称为读者反馈面板的相关性反馈组件。WALT 最独特的功能可能是它使用“书架”和“书脊”隐喻，既便于导航，又提供基于直方图的显示，展示被认为适合回答用户查询的文档。
