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Vortrag, "Semantics, Analytics, Visualisation: Enhancing Scholarly Data Workshop co-located with the 25th International World Wide Web Conference April 11, 2016 - Montreal, Canada", Montreal 2016.

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Abstract

Das System ALEPH 500 (Version 14.2) bietet den Benutzern mit der Weiterentwicklung des "Multilingualen Thesaurus" verfeinerte Recherchefunktionen an, z.B. - Erhöhung der Treffsicherheit - Ausschluss von nicht zutreffenden Suchergebnissen - Aufspüren aller für die Suche relevanter Titel - Sprachunabhängige Suche - Beziehungen zwischen Begriffen. Im ALEPH 500-Web OPAC wird der Thesaurus in zwei Fenstern angezeigt. Links ist der Thesaurus-Baum mit Hierarchien und Begriffsbeziehungen abgebildet. Parallel dazu werden rechts die Informationen zum ausgewählten Deskriptor dargestellt. Von diesem Fenster aus sind weitere thesaurusbezogene Funktionen ausführbar. Der Thesaurus ist direkt mit dem Titelkatalog verknüpft. Somit kann sich der Benutzer vom gewählten Deskriptor ausgehend sofort die vorhandenen Titel im OPAC anzeigen lassen. Sowohl die Einzelrecherche über einen Deskriptor als auch die Top DownRecherche über einen Thesaurus-Baumzweig werden im Suchverlauf des Titelkatalogs mitgeführt. Die Recherche kann mit den bekannten Funktionen in ALEPH 500 erweitert, eingeschränkt, modifiziert oder als SDI-Profil abgelegt werden. Erfassung und Pflege des Thesaurusvokabublars erfolgen im Katalogisierungsmodul unter Beachtung allgemein gültiger Regeln mit Hilfe maßgeschneiderter Schablonen, die modifizierbar sind. Durch entsprechende Feldbelegungen können die vielfältigen Beziehungen eines Deskriptors abgebildet sowie Sprachvarianten hinterlegt werden. Hintergrundverknüpfungen sorgen dafür, dass sich Änderungen im Thesaurus sofort und direkt auf die bibliographischen Daten auswirken.

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Abstract

Das System ALEPH 500 (Version 14.2) bietet den Benutzern mit der Weiterentwicklung des "Multilingualen Thesaurus" verfeinerte Recherchefunktionen an, z.B. - Erhöhung der Treffsicherheit - Ausschluss von nicht zutreffenden Suchergebnissen - Aufspüren aller für die Suche relevanter Titel - Sprachunabhängige Suche - Beziehungen zwischen Begriffen. Im ALEPH 500-Web OPAC wird der Thesaurus in zwei Fenstern angezeigt. Links ist der Thesaurus-Baum mit Hierarchien und Begriffsbeziehungen abgebildet. Parallel dazu werden rechts die Informationen zum ausgewählten Deskriptor dargestellt. Von diesem Fenster aus sind weitere thesaurusbezogene Funktionen ausführbar. Der Thesaurus ist direkt mit dem Titelkatalog verknüpft. Somit kann sich der Benutzer vom gewählten Deskriptor ausgehend sofort die vorhandenen Titel im OPAC anzeigen lassen. Sowohl die Einzelrecherche über einen Deskriptor als auch die Top DownRecherche über einen Thesaurus-Baumzweig werden im Suchverlauf des Titelkatalogs mitgeführt. Die Recherche kann mit den bekannten Funktionen in ALEPH 500 erweitert, eingeschränkt, modifiziert oder als SDI-Profil abgelegt werden. Erfassung und Pflege des Thesaurusvokabublars erfolgen im Katalogisierungsmodul unter Beachtung allgemein gültiger Regeln mit Hilfe maßgeschneiderter Schablonen, die modifizierbar sind. Durch entsprechende Feldbelegungen können die vielfältigen Beziehungen eines Deskriptors abgebildet sowie Sprachvarianten hinterlegt werden. Hintergrundverknüpfungen sorgen dafür, dass sich Änderungen im Thesaurus sofort und direkt auf die bibliographischen Daten auswirken.

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Abstract

In dandelon.com werden im Gegensatz zu den bisherigen Federated Search-Portal-Ansätzen die Titel von Medien neu mittels intelligentCAPTURE dezentral und kollaborativ erschlossen und inhaltlich stark erweitert. intelligentCAPTURE erschließt maschinell bisher Buchinhaltsverzeichnisse, Bücher, Klappentexte, Aufsätze und Websites, übernimmt bibliografische Daten aus Bibliotheken (XML, Z.39.50), von Verlagen (ONIX + Cover Pages), Zeitschriftenagenturen (Swets) und Buchhandel (SOAP) und exportierte maschinelle Indexate und aufbereitete Dokumente an die Bibliothekskataloge (MAB, MARC, XML) oder Dokumentationssysteme, an dandelon.com und teils auch an Fachportale. Die Daten werden durch Scanning und OCR, durch Import von Dateien und Lookup auf Server und durch Web-Spidering/-Crawling gewonnen. Die Qualität der Suche in dandelon.com ist deutlich besser als in bisherigen Bibliothekssystemen. Die semantische, multilinguale Suche mit derzeit 1,2 Millionen Fachbegriffen trägt zu den guten Suchergebnissen stark bei.

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Abstract

Semantic Search has become an active research of Semantic Web in recent years. The classification methodology plays a pretty critical role in the beginning of search process to disambiguate irrelevant information. However, the applications related to Folksonomy suffer from many obstacles. This study attempts to eliminate the problems resulted from Folksonomy using existing semantic technology. We also focus on how to effectively integrate heterogeneous ontologies over the Internet to acquire the integrity of domain knowledge. A faceted logic layer is abstracted in order to strengthen category framework and organize existing available ontologies according to a series of steps based on the methodology of faceted classification and ontology construction. The result showed that our approach can facilitate the integration of inconsistent or even heterogeneous ontologies. This paper also generalizes the principles of picking appropriate facets with which our facet browser completely complies so that better semantic search result can be obtained.

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Theme

Semantic Web

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Abstract

Dewey Decimal Classification has been used to organize materials owned by the three scientific libraries at the University of Pavia, and to allow integrated browsing in their union catalogue through SciGator, a home built web-based user interface. Classification acts as a bridge between collections located in different places and shelved according to different local schemes. Furthermore, cross-discipline relationships recorded in the system allow for expanded queries that increase recall. Advantages and possible improvements of such a system are discussed.

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Abstract

Query suggestion is generally an integrated part of web search engines. In this study, we first redefine and reduce the query suggestion problem as "comparison of queries". We then propose a general modular framework for query suggestion algorithm development. We also develop new query suggestion algorithms which are used in our proposed framework, exploiting query, session and user features. As a case study, we use query logs of a real educational search engine that targets K-12 students in Turkey. We also exploit educational features (course, grade) in our query suggestion algorithms. We test our framework and algorithms over a set of queries by an experiment and demonstrate a 66-90% statistically significant increase in relevance of query suggestions compared to a baseline method.

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Abstract

We scho how the beenfits of the view-based search method, developed within the information retrieval community, can be extended with ontology-based search, developed within the Semantic Web community, and with semantic recommendations. As a proof of the concept, we have implemented an ontology-and view-based search engine and recommendations system Ontogaotr for RDF(S) repositories. Ontogator is innovative in two ways. Firstly, the RDFS.based ontologies used for annotating metadata are used in the user interface to facilitate view-based information retrieval. The views provide the user with an overview of the repositorys contents and a vocabulary for expressing search queries. Secondlyy, a semantic browsing function is provided by a recommender system. This system enriches instance level metadata by ontologies and provides the user with links to semantically related relevant resources. The semantic linkage is specified in terms of logical rules. To illustrate and discuss the ideas, a deployed application of Ontogator to a photo repository of the Helsinki University Museum is presented.

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Date

22. 2.2003 17:25:39
22. 2.2003 18:17:40

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30. 3.2001 13:32:22

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Footnote

Rez. in: JASIST 54(2003) no.7, S.695-697 (R. Savolainen): "Donald O. Case has written an ambitious book to create an overall picture of the major approaches to information needs and seeking (INS) studies. The aim to write an extensive review is reflected in the list of references containing about 700 items. The high ambitions are explained an p. 14, where Case states that he is aiming at a multidisciplinary understanding of the concept of information seeking. In the Preface, the author characterizes his book as an introduction to the topic for students at the graduate level, as well as as a review and handbook for scholars engagged in information behavior research. In my view, Looking for Information is particularly welcome as an academic textbook because the field of INS studies suffers from the lack of monographs. Along with the continuous growth of the number of journal articles and conference papers, there is a genuine need for a book that picks up the numerous pieces and puts them together. The use of the study as a textbook is facilitated by clearly delineated sections an major themes and the wealth of concrete examples of information seeking in everyday contexts. The book is lucidly written and it is accessible to novice readers, too. At first glance, the idea of providing a comprehensive review of INS studies may seem a mission impossible because the current number of articles, papers, and other contributions in this field is nearing the 10,000 range (p. 224). Donald Case is not alone in the task of coming to grips with an increasing number of studies; similar problems have been faced by those writing INS-related chapters for the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST). Case has solved the problem of "too many publications to be reviewed" by concentrating an the INS literature published during the last two decades. Secondly, studies an library use and information retrieval are discussed only to a limited extent. In addition, Case is highly selective as to studies focusing an the use of specific sources and channels such as WWW. These delineations are reasonable, even though they beg some questions. First, how should one draw the line between studies an information seeking and information retrieval? Case does not discuss this question in greater detail, although in recent years, the overlapping areas of information seeking and retrieval studies have been broadened, along with the growing importance of WWW in information seeking/retrieval. Secondly, how can one define the concept of information searching (or, more specifically, Internet or Web searching) in relation to information seeking and information retrieval? In the field of Web searching studies, there is an increasing number of contributions that are of direct relevance to information-seeking studies. Clearly, the advent of the Internet, particularly, the Web, has blurred the previous lines between INS and IR literature, making them less clear cut. The book consists of five main sections, and comprises 13 chapters. There is an Appendix serving the needs of an INS textbook (questions for discussion and application). The structure of the book is meticulously planned and, as a whole, it offers a sufficiently balanced contribution to theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues of INS. The title, Looking for Information: A Survey of Research an Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior aptly describes the main substance of the book. . . . It is easy to agree with Case about the significance of the problem of specialization and fragmentation. This problem seems to be concomitant with the broadening field of INS research. In itself, Case's book can be interpreted as a struggle against this fragmentation. His book suggests that this struggle is not hopeless and that it is still possible to draw an overall picture of the evolving research field. The major pieces of the puzzle were found and the book will provide a useful overview of INS studies for many years."

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Abstract

The Web provides a massive knowledge source, as do intranets and other electronic document collections. However, much of that knowledge is encoded implicitly and cannot be applied directly without processing into some more appropriate structures. Searching, browsing, question answering, for example, could all benefit from domain-specific knowledge contained in the documents, and in applications such as simple search we do not actually need very "deep" knowledge structures such as ontologies, but we can get a long way with a model of the domain that consists of term hierarchies. We combine domain knowledge automatically acquired by exploiting the documents' markup structure with knowledge extracted an the fly to assist a user with ad hoc search requests. Such a search system can suggest query modification options derived from the actual data and thus guide a user through the space of documents. This article gives a detailed account of a task-based evaluation that compares a search system that uses the outlined domain knowledge with a standard search system. We found that users do use the query modification suggestions proposed by the system. The main conclusion we can draw from this evaluation, however, is that users prefer a system that can suggest query modifications over a standard search engine, which simply presents a ranked list of documents. Most interestingly, we observe this user preference despite the fact that the baseline system even performs slightly better under certain criteria.

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Abstract

Seit 3. Juli 2006 stellt das ZPID eine verbesserte Suchoberfläche für die Recherche in der bibliographischen Psychologie-Datenbank PSYNDEX zur Verfügung. Hauptmerkmal der neuen Version 1.1 des 'ZPID-Retrieval für PSYNDEX' ist die Einbindung von 'PSYNDEX Terms', dem kontrollierten Wortschatz der psychologischen Fachsprache. PSYNDEX Terms basiert auf dem 'Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms' der American Psychological Association (APA) und enthält im Moment über 5.400 Deskriptoren. Zu jedem Deskriptor werden ggf. Oberbegriffe, Unterbegriffe und verwandte Begriffe angezeigt. Wer die Suchoberfläche nutzt, kann entweder im Thesaurus blättern oder gezielt nach Thesaurusbegriffen suchen. Kommt der eigene frei gewählte Suchbegriff nicht im Thesaurus vor, macht das System selbsttätig Vorschläge für passende Thesaurusbegriffe. DerThesaurus ist komplett zweisprachig (deutsch/englisch) implementiert, sodass er auch als Übersetzungshilfe dient. Weitere Verbesserungen der Suchoberfläche betreffen die Darstellbarkeit in unterschiedlichen Web-Browsern mit dem Ziel der Barrierefreiheit, die Erweiterung der OnlineHilfe mit Beispielen für erfolgreiche Suchstrategien, die Möglichkeit, zu speziellen Themen vertiefte Informationen abzurufen (den Anfang machen psychologische Behandlungsprogramme) und die Bereitstellung eines Export-Filters für EndNote. Zielgruppe des ZPID-Retrieval sind Einzelpersonen, die keinen institutionellen PSYNDEX-Zugang, z.B. am Campus einer Universität, nutzen können. Sie können das kostenpflichtige Retrieval direkt online erwerben und werden binnen weniger Minuten freigeschaltet. Kunden mit existierendem Vertrag kommen automatisch in den Genuss der verbesserten Suchoberfläche.

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Abstract

The growing availability of data in electronic form, the expansion of the World Wide Web and the accessibility of computational methods for large-scale data processing have allowed researchers in Information Retrieval (IR) to design systems which can effectively and efficiently constrain search within the boundaries given by context, thus transforming classical search into contextual search. Contextual Search: A Computational Framework introduces contextual search within a computational framework based on contextual variables, contextual factors and statistical models. It describes how statistical models can process contextual variables to infer the contextual factors underlying the current search context. It also provides background to the subject by: placing it among other surveys on relevance, interaction, context, and behaviour; providing a description of the contextual variables used for implementing the statistical models which represent and predict relevance and contextual factors; and providing an overview of the evaluation methodologies and findings relevant to this subject. Contextual Search: A Computational Framework is a highly recommended read, both for beginners who are embarking on research in this area and as a useful reference for established IR researchers.

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Abstract

Topic ontologies or web directories consist of large collections of links to websites, arranged by topic in different categories. The structure of these ontologies is typically not flat because there are hierarchical and nonhierarchical relationships among topics. As a consequence, websites classified under a certain topic may be relevant to other topics. Although some of these relevance relations are explicit, most of them must be discovered by an analysis of the structure of the ontologies. This article proposes a family of models of relevance propagation in topic ontologies. An efficient computational framework is described and used to compute nine different models for a portion of the Open Directory Project graph consisting of more than half a million nodes and approximately 1.5 million edges of different types. After performing a quantitative analysis, a user study was carried out to compare the most promising models. It was found that some general difficulties rule out the possibility of defining flawless models of relevance propagation that only take into account structural aspects of an ontology. However, there is a clear indication that including transitive relations induced by the nonhierarchical components of the ontology results in relevance propagation models that are superior to more basic approaches.

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Abstract

A user's query is considered to be an imprecise description of their information need. Automatic query expansion is the process of reformulating the original query with the goal of improving retrieval effectiveness. Many successful query expansion techniques model syntagmatic associations that infer two terms co-occur more often than by chance in natural language. However, structural linguistics relies on both syntagmatic and paradigmatic associations to deduce the meaning of a word. Given the success of dependency-based approaches to query expansion and the reliance on word meanings in the query formulation process, we argue that modeling both syntagmatic and paradigmatic information in the query expansion process improves retrieval effectiveness. This article develops and evaluates a new query expansion technique that is based on a formal, corpus-based model of word meaning that models syntagmatic and paradigmatic associations. We demonstrate that when sufficient statistical information exists, as in the case of longer queries, including paradigmatic information alone provides significant improvements in retrieval effectiveness across a wide variety of data sets. More generally, when our new query expansion approach is applied to large-scale web retrieval it demonstrates significant improvements in retrieval effectiveness over a strong baseline system, based on a commercial search engine.

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Abstract

Query auto completion (QAC) models recommend possible queries to web search users when they start typing a query prefix. Most of today's QAC models rank candidate queries by popularity (i.e., frequency), and in doing so they tend to follow a strict query matching policy when counting the queries. That is, they ignore the contributions from so-called homologous queries, queries with the same terms but ordered differently or queries that expand the original query. Importantly, homologous queries often express a remarkably similar search intent. Moreover, today's QAC approaches often ignore semantically related terms. We argue that users are prone to combine semantically related terms when generating queries. We propose a learning to rank-based QAC approach, where, for the first time, features derived from homologous queries and semantically related terms are introduced. In particular, we consider: (i) the observed and predicted popularity of homologous queries for a query candidate; and (ii) the semantic relatedness of pairs of terms inside a query and pairs of queries inside a session. We quantify the improvement of the proposed new features using two large-scale real-world query logs and show that the mean reciprocal rank and the success rate can be improved by up to 9% over state-of-the-art QAC models.