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Klas, C.-P.; Fuhr, N.; Schaefer, A.: Evaluating strategic support for information access in the DAFFODIL system (2004)
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- Abstract
- The digital library system Daffodil is targeted at strategic support of users during the information search process. For searching, exploring and managing digital library objects it provides user-customisable information seeking patterns over a federation of heterogeneous digital libraries. In this paper evaluation results with respect to retrieval effectiveness, efficiency and user satisfaction are presented. The analysis focuses on strategic support for the scientific work-flow. Daffodil supports the whole work-flow, from data source selection over information seeking to the representation, organisation and reuse of information. By embedding high level search functionality into the scientific work-flow, the user experiences better strategic system support due to a more systematic work process. These ideas have been implemented in Daffodil followed by a qualitative evaluation. The evaluation has been conducted with 28 participants, ranging from information seeking novices to experts. The results are promising, as they support the chosen model.
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- 16.11.2008 16:22:48
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Furner, J.: ¬A unifying model of document relatedness for hybrid search engines (2003)
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- Abstract
- Previous work an search-engine design has indicated that information-seekers may benefit from being given the opportunity to exploit multiple sources of evidence of document relatedness. Few existing systems, however, give users more than minimal control over the selections that may be made among methods of exploitation. By applying the methods of "document network analysis" (DNA), a unifying, graph-theoretic model of content-, collaboration-, and context-based systems (CCC) may be developed in which the nature of the similarities between types of document relatedness and document ranking are clarified. The usefulness of the approach to system design suggested by this model may be tested by constructing and evaluating a prototype system (UCXtra) that allows searchers to maintain control over the multiple ways in which document collections may be ranked and re-ranked.
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- 11. 9.2004 17:32:22
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Dominich, S.: Mathematical foundations of information retrieval (2001)
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- Abstract
- This book offers a comprehensive and consistent mathematical approach to information retrieval (IR) without which no implementation is possible, and sheds an entirely new light upon the structure of IR models. It contains the descriptions of all IR models in a unified formal style and language, along with examples for each, thus offering a comprehensive overview of them. The book also creates mathematical foundations and a consistent mathematical theory (including all mathematical results achieved so far) of IR as a stand-alone mathematical discipline, which thus can be read and taught independently. Also, the book contains all necessary mathematical knowledge on which IR relies, to help the reader avoid searching different sources. The book will be of interest to computer or information scientists, librarians, mathematicians, undergraduate students and researchers whose work involves information retrieval.
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- 22. 3.2008 12:26:32
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Voorhees, E.M.: Implementing agglomerative hierarchic clustering algorithms for use in document retrieval (1986)
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- Information processing and management. 22(1986) no.6, S.465-476
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Smeaton, A.F.; Rijsbergen, C.J. van: ¬The retrieval effects of query expansion on a feedback document retrieval system (1983)
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- 30. 3.2001 13:32:22
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Back, J.: ¬An evaluation of relevancy ranking techniques used by Internet search engines (2000)
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- 25. 8.2005 17:42:22
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Van der Veer Martens, B.; Fleet, C. van: Opening the black box of "relevance work" : a domain analysis (2012)
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- Abstract
- In response to Hjørland's recent call for a reconceptualization of the foundations of relevance, we suggest that the sociocognitive aspects of intermediation by information agencies, such as archives and libraries, are a necessary and unexplored part of the infrastructure of the subject knowledge domains central to his recommended "view of relevance informed by a social paradigm" (2010, p. 217). From a comparative analysis of documents from 39 graduate-level introductory courses in archives, reference, and strategic/competitive intelligence taught in 13 American Library Association-accredited library and information science (LIS) programs, we identify four defining sociocognitive dimensions of "relevance work" in information agencies within Hjørland's proposed framework for relevance: tasks, time, systems, and assessors. This study is intended to supply sociocognitive content from within the relevance work domain to support further domain analytic research, and to emphasize the importance of intermediary relevance work for all subject knowledge domains.
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Kulyukin, V.A.; Settle, A.: Ranked retrieval with semantic networks and vector spaces (2001)
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- Abstract
- The equivalence of semantic networks with spreading activation and vector spaces with dot product is investigated under ranked retrieval. Semantic networks are viewed as networks of concepts organized in terms of abstraction and packaging relations. It is shown that the two models can be effectively constructed from each other. A formal method is suggested to analyze the models in terms of their relative performance in the same universe of objects
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Fuhr, N.: Ranking-Experimente mit gewichteter Indexierung (1986)
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- 14. 6.2015 22:12:44
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Fuhr, N.: Rankingexperimente mit gewichteter Indexierung (1986)
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- 14. 6.2015 22:12:56
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Robertson, S.E.: OKAPI at TREC-1 (1994)
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- Abstract
- Describes the work carried out on the TREC-2 project following the results of the TREC-1 project. Experiments were conducted on the OKAPI experimental text information retrieval system which investigated a number of alternative probabilistic term weighting functions in place of the 'standard' Robertson Sparck Jones weighting functions used in TREC-1
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Srinivasan, P.: Intelligent information retrieval using rough set approximations (1989)
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- Abstract
- The theory of rough sets was introduced in 1982. It allows the classification of objects into sets of equivalent members based on their attributes. Any combination of the same objetcts (or even their attributes) may be examined using the resultant classification. The theory has direct applications in the design and evaluation of classification schemes and the selection of discriminating attributes. Introductory papers discuss its application in the domain of medical diagnostic systems and the design of information retrieval systems accessing collections of documents. Advantages offered by the theory are: the implicit inclusion of Boolean logic; term weighting; and the ability to rank retrieved documents.
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MacFarlane, A.; Robertson, S.E.; McCann, J.A.: Parallel computing for passage retrieval (2004)
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- 20. 1.2007 18:30:22
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Faloutsos, C.: Signature files (1992)
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Losada, D.E.; Barreiro, A.: Emebedding term similarity and inverse document frequency into a logical model of information retrieval (2003)
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Bornmann, L.; Mutz, R.: From P100 to P100' : a new citation-rank approach (2014)
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Tober, M.; Hennig, L.; Furch, D.: SEO Ranking-Faktoren und Rang-Korrelationen 2014 : Google Deutschland (2014)
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Chen, H.; Lally, A.M.; Zhu, B.; Chau, M.: HelpfulMed : Intelligent searching for medical information over the Internet (2003)
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- The Medical professionals and researchers need information from reputable sources to accomplish their work. Unfortunately, the Web has a large number of documents that are irrelevant to their work, even those documents that purport to be "medically-related." This paper describes an architecture designed to integrate advanced searching and indexing algorithms, an automatic thesaurus, or "concept space," and Kohonen-based Self-Organizing Map (SOM) technologies to provide searchers with finegrained results. Initial results indicate that these systems provide complementary retrieval functionalities. HelpfulMed not only allows users to search Web pages and other online databases, but also allows them to build searches through the use of an automatic thesaurus and browse a graphical display of medical-related topics. Evaluation results for each of the different components are included. Our spidering algorithm outperformed both breadth-first search and PageRank spiders an a test collection of 100,000 Web pages. The automatically generated thesaurus performed as well as both MeSH and UMLS-systems which require human mediation for currency. Lastly, a variant of the Kohonen SOM was comparable to MeSH terms in perceived cluster precision and significantly better at perceived cluster recall.
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Keen, M.: Query reformulation in ranked output interaction (1994)
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- Reports on a research project to evaluate and compare Boolean searching and methods of query reformulation using ranked output retrieval. Illustrates the design and operating features of the ranked output system, called ROSE (Ranked Output Search Engine), by means of typical results obtained by searching a database of 1239 records on the subject of cystic fibrosis. Concludes that further work is needed to determine the best reformulation tactics needed to harness the professional searcher's intelligence with that much more limited intelligence provided by the search software
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Torra, V.; Miyamoto, S.; Lanau, S.: Exploration of textual document archives using a fuzzy hierarchical clustering algorithm in the GAMBAL system (2005)
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- Abstract
- The Internet, together with the large amount of textual information available in document archives, has increased the relevance of information retrieval related tools. In this work we present an extension of the Gambal system for clustering and visualization of documents based on fuzzy clustering techniques. The tool allows to structure the set of documents in a hierarchical way (using a fuzzy hierarchical structure) and represent this structure in a graphical interface (a 3D sphere) over which the user can navigate. Gambal allows the analysis of the documents and the computation of their similarity not only on the basis of the syntactic similarity between words but also based on a dictionary (Wordnet 1.7) and latent semantics analysis.
